"'Memoirs Of A Madman' was, because I've been not doing my solo stuff for quite awhile now, I've been touring with Black Sabbath, I just wanted to let everybody know I haven't stopped doing my solo stuff," Ozzy tells GMI Rock .

"It's like a bridge thing... So I'm gonna do one more Black Sabbath tour, one more album with Black Sabbath, and I'm in the process, as we go along, [of] collecting stuff that I'm writing. I've co-written about three songs so far for my own solo thing."

"It'll take about two or three years before I release solo stuff again," adds Ozzy, "so 'Memoirs Of The Madman' is just to say to the fans that I haven't stopped, y'know?"