Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
“Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.”
“The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.”