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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.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

Geezer Butler