Ozzy Osbourne: Likeness

“Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.”

Ozzy Osbourne

The Osbournes television show

Housing

“Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you
I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you
You telling all the people the original sin
He says he knows you better that you'll ever know him”

Ozzy Osbourne

I Don't Want to Change the World, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Randy Castillo and Lemmy Kilmister
Song lyrics, No More Tears (1991)

God , People

“I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?”

Ozzy Osbourne

CNN May 26, 1998

People , Dead

“When we did that album (Vol. 4) it was like one big Roman orgy-we'd be in the Jacuzzi all day doing coke, and every now and then we'd get up to do a song.”

Ozzy Osbourne

Guitar World Issue 37, 2000.

“I like the smell of armpits in the morning. It's like victory.”

Ozzy Osbourne

The Osbournes television show

Victory

“You've got to believe in yourself
Or no one will believe in you
Imagination like a bird on the wing
Flying free for you to use”

Ozzy Osbourne

Believer, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley
Song lyrics, Diary of a Madman (1981)

Imagination , Bird , Flying

“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?”

Ozzy Osbourne

Guitar World Issue 37, 2000

Music

“I don't consider myself a great singer--but I have a connection with the audience. There's the artist, and then a void and the audience; but I like to be part of the audience. I'd like to be them, and I'd like them to be me for an hour and a half. I get criticized for being the antichrist, causing kids to commit suicide, but that's total bullsh-t. My intentions are not that. Every year they have Halloween, and all I do is take Halloween night out on the road every night. It's like a Halloween party every night. If that was the case on Halloween night, the police cells would be full--everyone would have turned Satanic for the night!”

Ozzy Osbourne

Launch.com October 8 2003

Suicide , Parting , Night

“I miss the lack of melody [in current music] as well. I mean, a lot of people think I'm crazy for liking Creed and I like them purely because they sing! I mean, the singer of Creed sings like the guy from Pearl Jam, very close kind of voice. But I like the fact that Creed sing. I don't care if they're a Bible band, Satan band…”

Ozzy Osbourne

MTV.com, 2002

People , Music , Guy , Thinking

“I'm like a junky without an addiction.”

Ozzy Osbourne

I Don't Wanna Stop, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde and Kevin Churko.
Song lyrics, Black Rain (2007)

“I like warming my butt by the fire.”

Ozzy Osbourne

The Osbournes television show

“When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.”

Ozzy Osbourne

The Osbournes television show

Alcohol

“Taught by the powers that preach over me
I can hear their empty reasons
I wouldn't listen, I learned how to fight
I opened up my mind to treason
But just like the wounded, and when it's too late
They'll remember, they'll surrender
Never a care for the people who hate
Underestimate me now”

Ozzy Osbourne

Shot in the Dark, written by Phil Soussan, Jake E. Lee and Ozzy Osbourne.
Song lyrics, The Ultimate Sin (1986)

Hate , People , Learning , Fight

“I've done a lot worse than jump off piers, son. Like throw a television out the window.”

Ozzy Osbourne

The Osbournes television show

“The idea of a band nowadays is 5 pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on. What the fuck is that? I mean, I like Britney Spears, I think she's pretty, but I'm not from the Mickey Mouse Club-I'm from the Godzilla Club!”

Ozzy Osbourne

Guitar World Issue 37, 2000.

Idea , Boy , Thinking , Tattoo

“I like the word fuck. Fucking deal with it and move on to the first fucking question you have.”

Ozzy Osbourne

Interview. Citation needed.

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