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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions for Ozzy Osbourne [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions for Ozzy Osbourne](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ItOTB6Wo.m3u8) (5:49)  _Published 2010-01-27. The heavy metal pioneer has a new book out, I Am Ozzy. He answers reader questions here_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:18 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Singer and Heavy Metal Icon, Dies at 76 ](/video/SdD1bfMC/) ### Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Singer and Heavy Metal Icon, Dies at 76 [ISS Astronauts Answer Your Questions](/video/yPdYueon/) ### ISS Astronauts Answer Your Questions [10 Questions for will.i.am](/video/SpclAGMJ/) ### 10 Questions for will.i.am --- ## Transcript Onto Morrison for Time.com. And this is ten questions with Ozzy Osborne. Ozzy, thanks for joining us. You're welcome. These are questions from readers, your fans. We got over 350 questions from them, and less than half were about the bat. Oh, that's cool. And get that question. Well, let's go straight to the question from Danny Hill in Vancouver, British Columbia. Who wants to know, how do you feel about you and Black Sabbath being known as pioneers of the genre, Heavy metal? It wasn't set out to be that. But if that's what it is, that's what it is. I'm very happy to really do something. Do you think of the music you play as heavy metal, or have you thought of it just a straight rock or. It's just heavy rock? Oh, I'm so comfortable with the phrasing of heavy metal. Who to know any musical connotations of heavy rough with your brother. James Winston, and how on New Jersey would like to know. Of all the songs you've written, which one is your favorite? Oh no, I don't have a single favorite, but the one I'm probably the most is paranoid is there and doing that one for. You can be good. Got another? Does it ever get tiring to play this? No. No. That's what they work on. Job. You know. Is it one of those things where you go up on stage and you still get as excited as you used to or just sort of feel like. Sort of stage four? Do you still get stage fright even now? Yeah, it gets worse as you get older. I know. How how do you get over it? Oh, it was like an invisible line. One supposed that like, Oh, it's still going over there anyway, because of the good ones are going to run. You're different every night. You go on and try your best. You know, when a human. Got killed, all the readers want to know. They do want to ask about the bad. Although I do want to talk to us. I mean, 1981, it's not really 2010 and everybody knows what I did. And you're always repeating old stuff, you know? Well, that was actually the question that they wanted to ask is how does it feel to keep answering this question over and over? Just explain. So this is. It's just. Going move on. I once had a girlfriend called Mary, one of 14. Move on. Is there anything you regret about your past? A lot of things that I regret, but that's part of my problem is when you get to the crossroads, whatever you want, everyone you take, you've got to take when the good and the bad, you know. I'm sad that I wasn't there for my children, either physically or mentally for so long. So I quit drinking and getting stoned. If you hadn't become a musician, what do you think you would have done? What would you be doing now? Assuming it's impossible because I probably am dead or in prison. I don't know if this is speaking of a regret, but a reader in Chicago, Illinois, would like to know. Do you have any regrets about making the reality TV show you did with MTV, the Osbornes? Do you have any regrets about doing that? No. Crazy. Hey, but that's how it goes. What was it like having cameras following you around every time? At first it was fun, but then it got old very quick. You did it for three, three seasons to get old really quick. Or did it get all sort of towards the end? After after the first season, I saw this slide from where I stand showing a colon cancer. Then the kids ended up on drugs and alcohol. I was on drugs and alcohol, so it was like a ship of doom, you know? Well, readers actually wanted to ask a couple of questions about your family, actually. First of all, they wanted to know you and your wife, Sharon, obviously have a very close relationship. And you've been married for for a fairly long time. How do you guys stay together? I you have a joke. Give it. She takes well on another topic. We have a question from Sarah Heath from Hesperia, California. She wants to know what's your favorite tattoo? What is your favorite tattoo? Oh, I don't. I wanted to be sure she was good with it. Try to fit them on my thing. And if you want to be somebody special now thrown out, it's as if everybody's getting them, you know? Was there a point when you thought enough tattoos? I wish I. Like it when I go off and do silly things. Wow. To go all the way up. Yeah. I like. I can. Really? Really. When I was having this is one of the few ones I had sober. And I thought, well, most of it. I'm something I do. And Sharon Ann, in three years, Massachusetts would like to know if you had one piece of important advice you'd like to give to the world that you feel everyone should take seriously. What would it be? Never say never. I mean, it just does. Hold on to your dreams and never say never. I had a dream many, many years ago of getting out of the working class environment, and I found success in the entertainment field, but also. And if you have a dream about that, you know, wherever you want to be, keep on going. You know, you never know. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Questions for Ozzy Osbourne","description":"The heavy metal pioneer has a new book out, I Am Ozzy. 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