Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

I knew that if I woke up hung over, I couldn't do the best possible job on the show, so I had to quit. Also, I'd consumed a lot of beer for a lot of years, and I thought, That's enough. I've had my fun and I'm glad I quit.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

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.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

I'm sober now and very happy.

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

I just hope by how I live my life every day that people can see there is another side to addiction. You can live with it and have a successful life.

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.