BLACK SABBATH legend OZZY OSBOURNE spoke with Lara Kilner from Mirror.co.uk recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Mirror.co.uk: So your autobiography, I Am Ozzy, is finally out. Is there anything left to shock us with?

Osbourne: "Well, it’s not exactly a bedtime story. Not one for the grandkids. I’ve had a pretty eventful life. You can’t put Ozzy Osbourne’s life down in 350 pages. There might be another nine instalments to come yet… Everyone knows about the bat and the dove, but there’s lots of other really funny stuff in there. And what’s kept me alive all these years is I’ve had a good sense of humour."

Mirror.co.uk: What have been your proudest and most shameful moments?

Osbourne: "I regret trying to kill Sharon. It wasn’t my plan to go out, get p*ssed, try to strangle her and wake up in jail. My best moment was being successful on my own after Black Sabbath. And having my kids. And getting sober."

Mirror.co.uk: Does it bug you that you’re most famous for biting the head off a bat/pair of doves?

Osbourne: "What would happen if I did that today? ‘Ozzy Bit The Heads Off A Pair Of Doves’. So what? But it’s going to be on my f***ing gravestone. You’d think it was all I’d ever done, but I’ve done a lot more fucking things than that. When people ask what it’s like to bite the head off a bat, I get kind of p*ssed off because they haven’t done much research."

Mirror.co.uk: What would have happened if you hadn’t met Sharon?

Osbourne: "I’d be dead. I’d have killed myself by now. Falling in love with Sharon was the best thing that ever happened to me. She was patient, she stuck by me. Someone asked me, ‘Imagine if it was the other way around, you were the sober one and she was the one on the floor covered in piss and puke every day. How long do you think you would last?’ And I was like, ‘F**k, that’s a good question.’ I really don’t know the answer. She stuck it out. Her being sober saved me. She’s not a big drinker – she has a few glasses of wine and she goes fucking nuts."

Read the entire interview here.