Ozzy just announced in an interview with Classic Rock magazine that, although he believes it’s wrong to put drug addicts in jail, drug dealers should be put to death.
“I now call cocaine ‘bullsh*t powder,’ because it makes you feel that everyone’s wonderful, that you’re wonderful and you can solve the problems of the world. But it’s an illusion. I did plenty of it for years. And I’m not proud of that. I think it’s wrong that they put addicts in jail, because it’s an illness. Pushers of heroin and hard drugs should be executed because it’s an attempted murder. They’re selling death.”
Harsh? Yea, probably over the top, but Ozzy has had a few brushes with The Reaper due to his lifelong addiction to drugs and alcohol. He's been clean and sober for a while now (after a 2013 relapse), but there's always the risk of stepping off the cliff one more time and expecting to fly.
“You can’t do something stupid twice and expect a different outcome. A stupid thing will always have a stupid result. I’m one of those people who goes, ‘Well, I’ll try doing that much cocaine again. It may not quite kill me this time.
“If I like something I do it forever in large amounts. I never tried smoking crack. I wonder what that’s like. Get me a f**king bag bigger than my house full of crack! Then I’ll sit there and smoke it until I die. I can’t do anything in moderation.”
Ozzy also reveals he wasn’t expecting the favorable reaction to Black Sabbath’s album 13 when it launched in 2013.
“The success with 13 took me by surprise. Over the years, being with them and being solo, we never got a number one in America. It took all this time to get a number one. We did an 89-date tour – they were great. I was sober, I wasn’t f**king doing drugs and I wasn’t smoking cigarettes. I wasn’t going out and getting f**king crazy. I honestly thought I would never do that.
“If we never do anything again, I’m glad that we ended on an up note.”
-Spencer