Zakk Wylde's Quotes

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

You're never going to learn everything.

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

The way I look at it you can always get better.

We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.