After you get off stage, you kick back, listen to some Rolling Stones and then you start firing back some cocktails.
All I care about is what's going on with Black Label and all the chapters around the world and that my wife and family is fed.
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.
Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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.
Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
Besides the national anthem, that is pretty much the best song ever written. Every time I listen to it I want to cry.
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.
Every day you try to get better.
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!
I can demo a riff, but the way I look at it is that after you write one thing you're onto the next thing anyway.
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.
I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
I'm always excited about the fresh stuff.
I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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.
If it's a long bus drive after the gig, we'll listen to music all the time, like the Stones, Neil Young, Elton John. Just mellow stuff.
If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
If they do another Death Wish or Dirty Harry... I'd love to go walking around with a 44 magnum. Then I'll do some acting.
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.
It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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.
Ozzy has dyslexia.
Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
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.
The Mudvayne guys are heavy as hell.
The tours are campaigns.
The way I look at it you can always get better.
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
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.
You never toot your own horn.
You're never going to learn everything.
Zakk was a close friend of the deceased Dimebag Darrell, he dedicates each live performance of the song In This River to Dimebag.
He and his wife, Barbaranne, have three children and live just outside of Los Angeles.
His first band was called "Stone Henge".
He plays Gibson Les Paul Custom guitars.
He started playing the guitar at the age of 15.
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