Bill Ward

“I love ghosts - I'm a ghost person and have been most of my life.”

“I don't tend to be current with anything. I just write the music and allow it to just be whatever it is.”

“For our many Sabbath fans, I love you all dearly. You are extremely special people.”

“In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my playing by the time February of 2013 came around. I would go up and rehearse to different songs, play stuff like Count Basie records, jazz or rap.”

“We never made music to fit into anything or to reach a certain audience.”

“I found very early on that I lacked the ability to be able to play as a timekeeper. I have a really tough time even thinking in those terms.”

“I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.”

“When I'm working on new ideas, musically much of what's played is guided by a visual appearance or shape.”

“When I listen to our first album now, I can hear the purity of the oneness of leaving all earthly things aside to come together and create something. It's quite marvelous.”

“I don't want to do death any more. I don't want to do doom and gloom. I want to do life and love.”

“Regardless of injuries, we would get onstage, and as soon as we were up there it was like, bam! You were hit with an incredible force. The band came alive on stage like someone had switched us on.”

“The great thing about being a great band is that it takes risks.”

“I can't afford to have resentment. I can't afford to be angry. I can't afford these things spiritually or physically.”

“When I think about Oz, when he was a teenager, I'm just reminded of what an excellent blues voice he had. He had a large voice. When we did the Aynsley Dunbar song 'Warning' and 'Black Sabbath,' his voice is so right. It's really round, and it has that pain from within in his voice.”

“When I write, there's always an image, sometimes a color attached to what's being created. I am delighted with the captured expressions - from my head and my heart. Their arrival onto canvas is beautiful.”

“I heard about twenty, twenty-four bars of one track - one track - on '13,' and I listened to it, and I just didn't like it at all; I just didn't like it. And I have that right not to like it.”

“I wanna play hard rock. I wanna play loud drums.”

“I don't have a problem with letting go of an album once I know I've pretty much done the best that I can.”

“I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa.”

“I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were very aggressive when we played live.”