“It’s not about musicianship, it’s about rock n’ roll.”

“It’s so much easier to know who you are when there aren’t a thousand people telling you who they think you are.”

“There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.”

“After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.”

“Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.”

“I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.”

“The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It’s the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don’t just play the Opry; you live it.”

“Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light… they live on Forever.”

“I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there’s a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.”

“We all have to dance with our devils…but I lead.”

“The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.”

“If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like ‘Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Star Wars,’ science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.”

“We don’t wear sequins because we think we’re great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.”

“Pork chops, and applesauce.”

“I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.”

“It was bad enough that I actually left Ozzy because it was too painful to go onto stage every night without Randy being there.”

“I think people can see that if anything I kept the alternative thing in MTV, … If they hadn’t had me it would have been just Madonna and big-hair bands. It was a great combination of punk and rock, and I’ve gone on to do that today.”