Roger Waters isn't a person who cares what people think about him, it seems, and that is a good thing. Most people don't seem to care for the former Pink Floyd frontman. That even goes for Waters' former bandmates. It also probably goes for fans of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne.
Waters, who appears to have no self-awareness of when to say things and when not to, made a few disparaging remarks about Osbourne in 2025, doing so around the time of Osbourne's death. Waters can say what he wants, obviously, but maybe he should do it with a bit more class.
When asked recently if he had any remorse about saying what he did about Osbourne, Waters doubled down. Why would he regret his words? He meant what he said, no matter the pushback he got.
Roger Waters keeps talking about Ozzy Osbourne
What Waters told The Independent last year was, "Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him. In whatever state he was in his whole life. We'll never know, although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense. The music, I have no idea. I couldn't give a (expletive). I don't care about Black Sabbath."
Except that Roger Waters clearly does care about Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath because he had an opinion about them, and he said it. If one truly didn't care, they would have no opinion. Waters might not be as smart as he lets on.
In a recent conversation on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Waters talked even more about Osbourne. Sabbath and Ozzy fans won't like what he said this most recent time either.
Waters said, "Those comments — I'm not denying that I said them — came in the middle of a long interview. Do I have to like every rock group there ever was in the world or people who bite the heads off bats?...I was honest, I said I didn’t like Black Sabbath. I’ve listened to some of it since, and the music is perfectly kind of acceptable. It was all a kind of histrionics."
The former Pink Floyd singer seemed during the interview to be fixated on Osbourne biting the head off bats. Waters doesn't like that. True, the act would have been awful, but it certainly shouldn't be the only thing someone fixates on when reviewing the long career of someone like Ozzy Osbourne.
Roger Waters certainly wouldn't like it if the only thing people remembered about him was when he said that Russia was "not provoked" before it invaded Ukraine. Or who knows? Maybe he would. He seems like a person who likes to speak his opinions and wants them heard. Hopefully, most people will simply remember Waters for his music instead of his silly rants.