Quote of the Day (Ozzy Osbourne, on “The Jelly I Call My Brain”)

“Over the past forty years I've been loaded on booze, coke, acid, Quaaludes, glue, cough mixture, heroin, Rohypnol, Klonopin, Vicodin, and too many other heavy-duty substances to list in this footnote. On more than a few occasions I was on all of these at the same time. I'm not the f------ Encyclopedia Britannica, put it that way. What you read here is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story. Nothing more, nothing less.”-- Ozzy Osbourne, I Am Ozzy (2010)

That’s called truth in advertising, folks—nothing more, nothing less.

Quote of the Day (Ozzy Osbourne, Channeling His Inner Austin Powers)

“All the girls ran out of the venue screaming. Isn’t the whole point of being in a band to get a shag, not to make chicks run away?”—Ozzy Osbourne, recalling the first time his band played their song “Black Sabbath”, in I Am Ozzy (2010)

I can still recall the few times one of my brothers played the Black Sabbath album he’d bought in the early Seventies. Thank God he didn’t make a habit of it, or the damage to my ears would undoubtedly have been irreparable—sort of like the damage to Ozzy’s ego when—not so coincidentally!—the very same music drove comely young groupies out of their hall en masse.

Oh, yeah—I guess you’re wondering about the picture. Women might not have had their way with Ozzy at this point (ca. 1970), but drugs were only just beginning to do so—which is why he doesn’t look anywhere like the human wreck he is now.