Zakk Wylde

“The way I look at it you can always get better.”

“As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.”

“I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.”

“There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.”

“If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.”

“On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.”

“Ozzy has dyslexia.”

“You're never going to learn everything.”

“I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.”

“That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.”

“With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.”

“Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.”

“For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.”

“You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.”

“If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.”

“I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.”

“You never toot your own horn.”

“You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.”

“Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.”

“One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.”