Quotes By Zakk Wylde

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

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.

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

I'm a good Catholic boy.

I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.

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

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.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

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

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

Ozzy has dyslexia.

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

If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

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

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

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.

The tours are campaigns.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

You never toot your own horn.

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.