‘They’ve said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: “He bit the head off a bat.” Yes. “He bit the head off a dove.” Yes. But then you hear things like, “Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn’t perform until he’d killed fifteen puppies…” Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I’ve got eighteen of the f***ing things at home. I’ve killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night. It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f***ing years. I survived a direct.

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