OZZY OSBOURNE - "I Never Thought I Could Write Anything Or Do A Show Sober, Ever"
October 26, 2014, 10 years ago
Legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne is featured in a new interview with The Times-Picayune discussing his Memoirs Of A Madman, his hit TV show The Osbournes, and what it#s like being Ozzy 24/7. An excerpt is available below:
Q: Do you feel you have to live up to your own reputation and be Ozzy all the time?
Osbourne: "I'll be 66 in a few weeks. I don't think I have to live up to anything anymore. I just have fun doing gigs. I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.
I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every fucking thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, 'This is the end of the line for my fun days.'
I stopped drinking about a year and three-quarters ago. I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything – cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.
And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too fucked up."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
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