Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

I think I've improved in a lot of ways because of being able to stay clean and sober.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

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.

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

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.

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 got sober, and I got happy again.

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 don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

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 cannot tell a lie, and I'm very straightforward. Sometimes this hurts people. I've wondered if I should change, but I feel more comfortable about myself this way.

Nothing good could ever have come of my life if I hadn't been able to get therapy and overcome my addictions.

I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.

I don't drink anymore.

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 used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album.