OZZY OSBOURNE: 'I Want To Do Another BLACK SABBATH Album'

Ozzy Osbourne recently spoke to the SouthFlorida.com about the end of "The Osbournes", Ozzfest and his future plans, among other topics. Several excerpts from the interview follow:

On closing in on his first year of sobriety:

"I go to meetings in bars — quite a few. It doesn't bother me. The obsession has been taken."

On "The Osbournes":

"I still don't understand the magnitude [of the show]. I'm kind of used to walking down the street and being recognized. But not by housewives and priests."

On wife Sharon being diagnosed with colon cancer during the show's second season:

"It spun me off into another world. I had a plan, you know. I thought I'd go first, considering I'm the nut-case, drunk, alcoholic wreck. She never drinks, and she ends up with colon cancer."

On his marriage:

"I absolutely adore the woman. I don't screw around, I don't go to clubs, I'm not looking for other women. Guys are weird. They get to the age of 45 and they think they've got a pair of new testicles and want to go out and test them out again. I'm not interested."

On his childhood:

Growing up poor near working-class Birmingham, England, "my folks never told me about anything, not a damn thing. Whatever I discovered was listening to my mates on the streets or reading a book or a magazine."

On his parenting style:

"I'd say, 'If and when you become sexually active, wear these, and make the people wear them, because if you come up HIV positive, your life is — over. And so is mine.' I'm as blunt as that. If it's wrong, it's wrong."

On his future plans:

Ozzy says he'd like to try his hand at a late-night show. All the current ones, he complains, are too " -- -- boringly formulated."

"I want to do another SABBATH album. I want to do another solo album. I'll always be about."

Read the entire interview at this location.