OZZY OSBOURNE is due in New Zealand in three weeks to headline the two-day Rock2Wgtn concert at Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand on March 22nd and 23rd. The New Zealand Herald caught up with Ozzy recently and asked him the following questions:

And what songs do you play as part of your sets nowadays?

Ozzy: "You'll have to wait and see because if I tell ya and we don't play it you'll be pissed off. I always do 'Paranoid', but I'm not going to tell you any more."

Why is Paranoid always a constant in your set?

Ozzy: "It's a fun song, everyone knows 'Paranoid', it's good to play live on stage and the crowd love it. It's just one of them songs and when I first departed from BLACK SABBATH I said, 'That's it I'm not doing any Black Sabbath.' But then you go round these concerts and things and people go, 'What about 'Paranoid'? What about 'War Pigs'?' So it got to the point where I thought, 'They played them and I sang them so why not?'"

What influence do you think the classic Sabbath albums and Ozzy albums like Diary Of A Madman have had on today's music?

Ozzy: "You know, we had success from the word go. We never had to wait. You know, we formed in '68, then had a bit of a booze up touring thing in '69, recorded the first Sabbath album in 1970 in 12 hours or something and it just took off and it's never stopped for me. So when you're immersed in something it's hard to say. Plus, I hate that fucking phrase heavy metal. It's got no musical connotation what so ever."

How do you want to be remembered?

Ozzy: "That I've made people have fun in their lives."

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