During a recent conversation with The Times, Ozzy Osbourne admitted he’s not really into working with his Black Sabbath bandmate, guitarist Tony Iommi.
The singer explained (via Blabbermouth):
“Do I like working with him? Not really. Do I like him as a person? Yeah, I love him as a person.
“But if people were to say to me, ‘Was there a leader of Black Sabbath?’, I’d have to say it was Tony Iommi.
“Because without his guitar riffs, we’d be still sitting in f*c*ing rehearsal with our thumbs up our arses going, ‘What do we do now?'”
Osbourne added he has “moved on” from Sabbath, saying about the band’s farewell tour:
“I’ll tell you what it was like. It’s like when you’re younger and you met a girl, Susie, and you break up and you don’t see her for 30 years.
“Then she’s in town and you go, ‘Oh, I’ll give Susie a call,’ because your memory only remembers the good parts and you can narrow it then to a week and you go, ‘I remember that week and it was lovely.’
“But then you go back and you go, ‘I forgot the f*c*ing four and three-quarter years I was f*c*ing miserable.'”
Ozzy went on to describe his ongoing solo tour as “great fun,” adding:
“I’m in control and it’s so much better. I get more pleasure out of doing the gigs now.”