The first record I ever bought was Kiss's 'Destroyer.' And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves.
What makes something pop? It's really just the bed it's placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it's not like they wouldn't translate.
You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.
I'm the black sheep.
I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.
Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.
After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.
I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.
I have always been the black sheep of the family. I am the middle child, with an older and a younger sister.
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
