Ozzy On Eating Poo With Mötley Crüe

To promote his new album ??Black Rain?? (Sony), Ozzy discussed some more taboo matters in a recent interview with the UK Telegraph. In it, we see Ozzy reflect back to the earlier days, before his children's drug problems. We are harkened to the days of his feces eating escapades with MÖTLEY CRÜE, being on drugs without reservations. The good times, the simple times. Here are some of the highlights, (or lowlights) from his interview for the UK Telegraph.On music theory:"I don't understand music, fucking Beethoven, whatever. I get a feeling, and the hairs on my arms stand on end — that's how I judge a song."On "Black Rain" being the first album he has made clean and sober;"I thought it was the booze and the dope that was making me creative, and if that's what it takes, I'm finished making records, because I do not want to go there again. I really thought I wouldn't get it back this time. I'm living on borrowed time anyway because of my wild years."On tracing his connection to BLACK SABBATH's early dark sound to childhood dyslexia:"I've always been in fear, always blamed myself for situations that have got nothing to do with me. You wake up every day and think, 'Why am I feeling like this?' I'd be afraid because I didn't feel afraid.On becoming notorious for biting off the heads of bats, snorting a line of ants and allegedly eating his own faeces during a drinking competition with MÖTLEY CRÜE:"I was like a loony, crazy guy. It's funny to talk about, but, when you wake up in a jail cell and you don't know what you're there for, and your family are looking at you like you're so pathetic, I got fed up with it."On "The Osbournes" TV show:"The good side was that it was the biggest thing since sliced bread around the world. The downside was that my kids were all taking heavy drugs, and I was getting fucked up again."On being sober:"I've said I'm done a thousand times, I'm finished, then the next week somebody'll get a picture of me lying on the floor of a bar, and it'll be on the front page of the National Enquirer: 'Aliens eat Ozzy's brain.' "On America's latest drug scourge, crystal meth:"They make it in the fucking kitchen. I'm watching this guy on TV, and he puts in all his fucking different asthma pills or whatever, then he gets a fucking battery, opens the thing and fucking shreds it, puts that in the fucking pot — and someone is going to inject this shit in their arms!"On the suggestion that he would have been taking that a few years ago:"I think I did actually. I wondered why my nose lit up at night when I went to bed."The Full Interview Can Be Found Here":CH[CH]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KEMYVMEVVO5P3QFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/arts/2007/05/17/bmozzy117.xml??Black Rain is due out May 22??