If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

- Geezer Butler

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

- Geezer Butler

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

- Geezer Butler

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

- Geezer Butler

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

- Geezer Butler

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

- Geezer Butler

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

- Geezer Butler

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

- Geezer Butler

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

- Geezer Butler