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ROBERTS: Jacqui, thanks so much. We look forward to seeing you later this hour with a further update on all of that.

Well, the Ozman cometh to CNN. I sat down with rock icon Ozzy Osbourne who's out with a new autobiography that is vintage Ozzy, brutally open and honest.

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ROBERTS: Are you surprised that Sharon stayed with you for as long as she did?

OZZY OSBOURNE, ROCK ICON: Absolutely. I mean, she's -- she is my baby. She's so -- she's...

ROBERTS: Because at one point, you tried to kill your baby, and you were strangling her and you ended up in jail...

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OSBOURNE: She tried to kill me more than once, too. She did.

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ROBERTS: Don't miss part two of the interview at 8:25 Eastern here on the Most News in the Morning.

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ROBERTS: He lived the lifestyle to its max, and actually beyond that. In fact he help invent the lifestyle. And somehow he is still here. Luckily, so is his wife Sharon. I had the chance to sit down with an older and wiser Ozzy, 25 years after our first encounter.

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ROBERTS: Are you surprised that Sharon stayed with you for...

OZZY OSBOURNE, ROCK STAR: Absolutely, I mean, she - she's my baby. She's so sweet. She's -

ROBERTS: Well because at one point you tried to kill your baby.

OSBOURNE: Yes.

ROBERTS: You were strangling her.

OSBOURNE: She tried to kill me more than once, too.

ROBERTS: Imagine...

OSBOURNE: You know, I mean, it's a zany time of our lives, but the reality, that's where it took me, I ain't a blackout, I tried to strangle her, I was told. I can't remember, ask still don't remember. It's not like I tried to kill her or something. I woke newspaper jail. That ain't very cool. That ain't very nice. I have regrets, but if I could change anything I would change that.

ROBERTS: I was interested to read and there is a photograph of you with Paul McCartney - where you say basically...

OSBOURNE: I met my good -- when I met sir Paul McCartney, it was one of the highlights of my life.

ROBERTS: Yes, you would be hard pressed to look back at the history of your music and find the Beatles influence.

OSBOURNE: Melody, I said to him, you know what, I love you guys. And then you solo. He's so -- he has done some amazing songs in his life. Earth-shattering songs in my opinion. And I said, he said I don't see the connection between your music and the Beatles. You always had the greatest melodies. He's probably in his 60's - 60 - I don't know.

ROBERTS: Well you're not far behind.

OSBOURNE: I know but he's like a 4 hour set. I mean, 40 songs and I'm going - he doesn't even stop for a drink of water, you know. How does he do it? He sings perfect. I mean I wish that I could get up and sing like that every night. I couldn't - even in my prime I could not do a four-hour show like that, you know.

ROBERTS: But here you are, 61 years old, you have a new c.d. coming out this summer, you've obviously still though - got a lot of gas left in the tank.

OSBOURNE: Oh yeah, I mean, it's the greatest love affair of my life. You know and to see -- to be able to -- coming from humble beginnings and giving people a reason for getting up that day, I mean, I want to go in stores and I sign the books and things, and it's -- some kids, you know, like my mother passed away and your album got me through this. That's really so gratifying thing to, you know -- I am so grateful for these kids.

ROBERTS: Yeah, to be able to --

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OSBOURNE: I get up to the stage. I mean I'm know and a father and son come to see -- it's just amazing.

ROBERTS: Did you think that your musical career would last as long as this?

OSBOURNE: No.

ROBERTS: I think it surprise -- I don't think the Rolling Stones knew they would still be doing it.

OSBOURNE: I am just -- I am just -- I am just in shock. I did not think it would last more than a couple years, you know.

ROBERTS: Remember, remember, Pete Townsand wrote the lyric "I hope I die before I get old."

OSBOURNE: Yeah, and then you get old and then you don't want to die.

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ROBERTS: And it is kind of amazing when you think of what - everything that he put into his body that he managed to live to the ripe old age of 61. And then while he obviously mumbles a bit. And there's obviously some image over the years, he's in remarkably good shape.