Zakk Wylde

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.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you’re going to pay me for this!

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

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.

The tours are campaigns.

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.

Ozzy has dyslexia.

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

You’re never going to learn everything.

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

We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

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

You never toot your own horn.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The way I look at it you can always get better.