Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

I had no plans to become a responsible person.

I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an alcoholic for the first 10 years of the marriage, and they say they are never going to change.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

We wanted to grow, and we were really over the circus theme at that point. We went out in the woods and got new clothes and all grew beards.

When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.

Lee Seung-gi before the army and Lee Seung-gi after the army are totally different. Firstly, I've matured a lot. I used to feel pressured by a lot of things before fulfilling my military duties. Now, I'm proud that I've become more confident.

I've changed like crazy. I know I have, 'cause I work at it.

I am a new man, and the man you see before you is the one I was always meant to be. This decision to be sober is a lifetime decision.

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

You must change your life.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we don't have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I've got to do something.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.