OZZY OSBOURNE talks Ozzfest 2010 during a recent visit to the Sirius/XM Studios. Check out the interview footage below, including an oustanding performance for Ozzy by host Jose.

Tara Murtha from Philadelphiaweekly.com spent "15 minutes with OZZY OSBOURNE" recently, chatting about his new book, I Am Ozzy, among other topics.

Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Philadelphiaweekly.com: You wrote at length about how the Satanists never fucked off and never stopped bothering you because they believed BLACK SABBATH was all about Satanism. What I don’t understand, is that you listen to a song like 'After Forever', and it’s practically Christian propaganda.

Osbourne: "Once you call it Black Sabbath or Ozzy Osbourne or Tony Iommi whatever, people go heavy metal! Satan! But where it all started was that way back when we first started, we used to rehearse in a community center across the road from a movie theater when we lived in Aston, Birmingham. Tony one day said, isn’t it weird how people pay money to get frightened? Why don’t we start writing scary music? And it came from that really; you can’t write a scary song about Jesus."

Philadelphiaweekly.com: So you’re performing soon.

Osbourne: "The album comes out, I’m doing Ozzfest, then I’m doing an arena tour, then I’m doing a world tour, then I’ll do a fucking stint in a lunatic asylum I think."

On getting Geezer to learn the bass so he could be in Black Sabbath: “How hard can that be, eh? There’s only four fucking strings.”

On prog rock: “If you don’t have a sense of humor when you’re in a band, you end up like EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, making eight-disc LPS so you can all have you own three-hour fucking solos. And who wants to listen to that bullocks?”

On studio time: “I don’t care if you’re making the next Bridge Over Troubled Water—taking five or ten or fifteen years to make an album, like GUNS N' ROSES did, is just fucking ridiculous, end of story.”

On public relations: “Look mate, the only evil spirits I’m interested in are called whiskey, vodka and gin … The good thing about all the Satanic stuff was that it gave us endless free publicity.”

Read the entire chat here.