During a conversation with Zane Lowe, Ozzy Osbourne talked about his new album “Ordinary Man,” branding it the first record he ever made while fully sober.
He said:
“I thought it was the drugs and the alcohol that made it all work. But it’s not true. All I was doing for years is self-medicating ’cause I didn’t like the way I felt.
“But then this is the first album I’ve co-written and recorded f*cking completely sober.
“The last album [’13’], I wrote some of it stoned. I quite like being sober now. ‘Cause at least I can remember the f*cking thing I did yesterday.”
Reflecting on deaths of such rock legends as Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley, Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell and Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, Ozzy said:
“But then, why am I here? Chris Cornell was a great, great singer… I’m not being funny and I’m not being c*cky; I can remember times when I’ve f*cking woke up with puke down me.
“I’ve f*cking woke up with a bed full of blood – when I’ve fallen down and banged my head or whatever. My friend John Bonham [of Led Zeppelin], I used to go drinking with him. He died. [AC/DC’s] Bon Scott, he died. I don’t know what to f*ckin’ say.”
“People go, ‘You must have the Midas touch’ or whatever. I’m lucky. I wasn’t any better than any of them. I even f*cking would go so far as to say I was worse in some cases. But it’s the luck of the draw. 71 and I don’t f*cking understand how I got there.”