OZZY OSBOURNE - "I Suppose There Are People Who Imagine Me Going To My Bavarian Castle And Hanging Upside Down From The Fucking Rafters Every Night"
June 4, 2010, 14 years ago
MTV News is reporting:
OZZY OSBOURNE talks about life "as the deranged god of metal on a crazy train ride" in a new interview with Inked magazine, where the 61-year-old hard-rock icon holds court on everything from American Idol to his first tattoos and what life is like sober.
"I wouldn't have been speaking to Ozzy from 35 years ago because he would've been fucked up and not having this conversation," he said when asked what he might discuss with his younger self. "I never wanted to take the character of Ozzy off the stage, but it happened." Now, with drugs and alcohol finally out of his life after decades of struggles, Ozzy, whose tenth studio album Scream will be released on June 22, said he only takes the medications he needs and that his life is not nearly as creepy and kooky as fans might imagine."I suppose there are people who imagine me going to my Bavarian castle and hanging upside down from the fucking rafters every night," he joked. "I'm just a guy, man - I'm just a crazy guy who started a merry-go-round ride many years ago, and I'm still here." Ozzy has seen a lot changes over the years, but one of the biggest shifts in the music business - the emergence of reality singing shows like American Idol - is not something he cares to think about. "I cannot watch that shit," said Osbourne, whose wife, Sharon, is a judge on reality performance competition America's Got Talent. "I cannot do it for the simple fact that for a person to come out of the working-class thing, pass the audition, go on the show and then have a panel of people tell them how fucked up they are ... I'm a 42-year veteran and I could not fucking do it. My hat goes off to all of those kids on those shows."
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