Ozzy Osbourne Details Magazine

Wiseguy: Ozzy Osbourne: The ant-snorting, bat-biting, elder statesman of heavy metal opens up in the new issue of Details Magazine:

On filming The Osbournes: “There were s—tloads of cameras everywhere. But I told them I’ve got to have a safe room. I’ve got to have a room where I can go and scratch my balls or pick my nose or squeeze a zit and not be on camera.�

On the show’s popularity: “My son [Jack Osbourne] said to me one day, ‘Dad, let me ask you something. Do you like people laughing at you?’ And I said, ‘You know what, Jack? As long as they’re laughing, I don’t give a f—k.� I didn’t really understand what he was saying then, but in hindsight he was sort of saying, in a nicer way, that everybody thinks you’re a f—king joke.�

On his former drug habit: “I very rarely went onstage loaded. At the end of a show – that’s when I’d get Vicodin’d.�

On snorting a line of ants: “I have no recollection of that – [The Motley Crue tour] was absolutely out of control. But I couldn’t have kept on living that lifestyle, because I didn’t want to die. You have to get pissed off at yourself before you put your hand up for help.�

On remaining anti-establishment: “I don’t like hanging around in nightclubs. I still believe in rock and roll. And my son’s too old to get called up now, but I always said that if they bring back conscription, I would make sure he didn’t get through. I don’t like the idea of my son being called to fight for some silly little war in Iraq over f—king oil.�

On attending the 2002 White House Correspondents Association Dinner: “I was f—king out of my tree. I was absolutely f—king loaded.�

On surviving an ATV accident: “I was not going more than three or four miles an hour, and I ended up in a coma for eight days […] If I had been going 120 miles an hour it would have been a cool way to go – but four miles an hour? Ozzy Osbourne!?�

The June/July issue of Details hits newsstands in NY and LA today, and nationwide on June 5, 2007