Picked Quotes

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.