Ronnie James Dio

"Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons Ive learned in my own life. The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability."

"Maybe if we cry together, Maybe if we cry as one, The tears that fall could kill the fire And keep everyone From Atom and Evil."

"It correlates itself with the way almost all of the people in this country believed in Richard Nixon up until the time he decided he was going to take a leap off the tower and fell flat on his ass and became just a little lump of blood and putty. That was my way of saying that the common man will always rise above the leader who oppresses them."

"Im not a very religious person. I have no concept of what a God is; it may be the man on the silver mountain. My image of the man on the silver mountain is a guy with flowing robes and lightning coming from his fingertips, kind of a mytholigal figure like Zeus. The song is more of a plea from the fallen and to the fallen that there is hope, I will make you holy again. Ask me and I will do something for you."

"I am not an Atheist or an anti-God person but my beliefs are that you do not have to go to a place to worship, you dont have to go to a house to do that and that God resides in you and me and so does the Devil and heaven and hell is where we live on this earth. If the God that everyone prays to is such a wonderful God he wouldnt have people suffering so horribly as they are."

"We always seem to begin or end in Philadelphia, its the best place to start and the best place to stop. Youre fantastic. My favorite place. Thank you!"