Legendary BLACK SABBATH singer OZZY OSBOURNE spoke with Darryl Sterdan from the QMI Agency recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

QMI Agency: Considering you're almost a senior, your last two albums Scream and Black Rain are some of the strongest work you've done in a while. What's behind that?

Osbourne: "To be absolutely truthful to you, it's not so much me as my producer Kevin Churko. He's got the patience of the f---ing devil. Scream was mostly written and created in the studio, and he'll sit there and listen for hours, day in and day out. I don't have the patience to do that. I have the attention span of a f---ing gnat."

QMI Agency: Was it tough to make Scream after losing Zakk Wylde? He was your guitarist and right-hand man for 20 years.

Osbourne: "Let me set something straight: I didn't lose Zakk. It was time for me to move on. I love the guy as much as I've always loved him, and as much as I will always love him. He's like family, you know. I remember when he was in hospital a while back. He had a blood clot in his hip or his leg or something. I sent him an email that said, 'Zakk, if you die before me, I'll f---ing kill you!'"

QMI Agency: I spoke to Geezer Butler recently and he said he'd love to do one more Black Sabbath world tour.

Osbourne: "I bet he would. (Laughs) Um, I'm not saying I wouldn't do it. But not right now. I've got another year to finish my tour. And if I do a Black Sabbath tour, he's got to promise to stop f---ing moaning. Geezer, I love him. But he's always on about something. He's like, 'Ohhhhh.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, great to see you too, Geezer.'

Well, it is cool when somebody asks me something other than, 'What does a bat taste like?' and 'Did you really p--- on the Alamo?' I mean, f--- off, you know? I was at the market the other day and this guy comes running >up with his camera and he's from KLF or TLC or whatever it's called. And he goes, 'So, Ozzy, are you gonna buy bat for dinner?' I said, 'Is that all you've f---ing got to ask me, you p---k? That's the dumbest f---ing question I've heard this week.' And the guy goes, 'Yeah, I suppose it is.' That's the kind of s--- I have to deal with."

Read the entire interview here.