We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band that wasn't announced: the mystery band. We'd never played the second stage at Ozzfest, and all of a sudden we're on the main stage.
We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect."
At every Ozzfest show, there's horns and devils somewhere; there's some kind of darkness somewhere. But the thing is, this is a stage, homey, and those fools are entertainers. And you know what, it shows! It's fake.
On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
As much fun as we had doing Ozzfest, I think it's good to try something else.
I remember, in 1999, when we did the last Ozzfest that we were part of, and I think Disturbed was on it, Static-X, obviously Ozzy, us, and we were the only band on the tour that had a rider that had any alcohol. Nobody else had it.
We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.
I'm a veteran of Ozzfest.
I think it would be fun to play a young Ozzy Osbourne in a movie about the formation of Black Sabbath.
People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.
Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.
When I was touring with Ozzy, you know, when I was with Manson, we toured with Ozzy, so many times, we did Ozzfest a thousand times, and, you know, it seems like I'm always playing with Ozzy in one way or another opening up.
