"I lost my virginity in a rape. I called that person back a month later and tried to make it right by being in control, and all it did was just make me feel worse."

"I can't set my hopes too high 'Cause every 'Hello' ends with a 'Goodbye'."

"I can be manipulated only so many times Before even 'I love you' starts to sound like a lie."

"Now I know who you are Yeah, I see I should have known it from the start."

"So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved."

"We used to play in places so tough that you had to show your gun and puke twice before they'd let you in the door."

"Hey son, don't look so glum. The goddam movie'd be awright if only had a few more shots of Robbie!"

"I saw Amadeus when I was nine years old and fell in love with Mozart. The part of Mozart's Requiem called "Lacrymosa" is my favorite piece of music ever. I always wished we could cover it, but with programming and guitars and make it cool. It's our moment to try all the things I wanted to and couldn't, so I started messing with it in Protools. Terry wrote some riffs and turned it into this awesome metal epic."

"Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful."

"Everybody loves you when you're dead. Everyone is suddenly your dearest friend. Nobody talks no dirt about you. But life, it just goes on above your head, when you're dead."

"You can give your confession tomorrow, if you find a priest dumb enough to believe, because it only hurts when I breathe."

"Late for work again today. Somebody was lying down on the job again. Will you people please stop jumping under my train? 'Ladies and gentlemen, there will be a slight delay while we hose the blood away.'"

"A thousand eyes are gazing down like bullet holes shot into the roof, as I lie here scratching for a grain of truth."

"Another perfect catastrophe is just waiting to happen, watching for the moment to transpire. Another perfect catastrophe is just dying to go down. It's only looking for the perfect place and time."

"Every word I never spoke dies like a spark smothered in smoke pulled from the glow of a shitty cigarette."

"Friday was the crucifixion Saturday, cremation under glass. The resurrection was on Sunday, no.. correction make it Monday; cause Monday's when they come to take the trash."

"I'm a raging success as a failure."

"People are very much victims of their lack of education. This of course makes them a lot easier to control. It works the same way there as it does (in America). I wouldn't say that surprised me."

"It's a bit like being a mad scientist. You mix a bit of this with some of that. You're never sure what's going to happen. But I'd rather blow up the laboratory than keep reinventing the wheel."

"A record should be like a bus ticket to somewhere, but you're not sure where that somewhere is going to be. (It) shouldn't just give you thirteen variations on the same four elements, like McDonald's, or something. 'You liked that one? Well here's the same thing, except with extra cheese.'"

"I've been down so long that coming up is giving me the bends."

"I'm sipping on an oxygen cocktail with an ambulance chaser."

"I was in Brooklyn and it was freezing cold. I was living in a room with no windows and paying too much in rent. I envisioned sitting under a palm tree. I followed my nose from there."

"Each day you hear the sand as it moves and whispers, Come and sail on my golden sea, Maybe one day you'll be just like me, And that's free."

"Don't look behind 'Cause a tear that never dries Can only make you blind."

"Whenever you dream, You're holding the key, It opens the door To let you be free."

"It's the same old song, You've gotta be somewhere at sometime, And they never let you fly. It's like broken glass, You get cut before you see it, So open up your eyes."

"When I see lightning — you know it always brings me down 'Cause it's free and I see that it's me Who's lost and never found."

"We made the mountains shake With laughter as we played, Hiding in our corner of the world. Then we did the demon dance And rushed to nevermore, Threw away the key and locked the door."

"If there isn't light when no one sees Then how can I know what you might believe?"

"There's perfect harmony In the rising and the falling of the sea. And as we sail along, I never fail to be astounded by The things we'll do for promises And a song."

"Love is a never ending smile."

"The world is full of kings and queens Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams, It's heaven and hell, oh well."

"I'll smash your face in, But with a smile, All together you'll never Be stronger than me."

"But life's not a wheel With chains made of steel, So bless me."

"Where was your star? Was it far, was it far? When did we leave? We believed, we believed, we believed (...)"

"I can't remember exactly when I heard Ronnie's voice, but I do know that the first time I did hear it, it was just like an electric shock, a bolt of lightning, because this voice had so much power and so much character and so much energy and so much of everything that makes a great singer. (...) If ever a man was a rock god, for me, it will always be Ronnie James Dio."

"I'm lucky that I am a very hard person and strong within my beliefs, so that this hasn't really been a problem for me, y'know, I just get cancer, I'll kick the hell outta you."

"I refuse to be beaten in any way, shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too."

"All my life, it seems Just a crazy dream Reaching for somebody's star, Like an open door That you've passed before, But you never had the key."

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

"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 don't 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 wouldn't have people suffering so horribly as they are."

"That was obvious that there are people in this world who always going to try and take advantage of you — and do take advantage of you. Those kings and queens are the people who think that they are so important, who want to take advantage of you, and that makes your life Heaven and Hell. Promises that you're going to get [is] the Heaven part, and Hell [is] when they don't come real."

"I brought melody and classicalness and a great amount of musicality to this band. Ozzy began it, and he deserves all the accolades he can get because he helped invent this kind of music. What he did was absolutely right for what it was, but music grew at that point, and I think it grew beyond what Ozzy was capable of giving an audience from a musical standpoint."

"Summer nights are colder now, They've taken down the fair, And all the lights have died somehow, Or were they ever there?"

"Most dreams are made of glass, You throw just one stone, And then there goes your last window."

"We always seem to begin or end in Philadelphia, it's the best place to start and the best place to stop. You're fantastic. My favorite place. Thank you!"

"You know, music was given to us to color our world, and some people like blue, some people like green, some people like the combination of both. It's just a matter of personal taste. I don't think that it matters what you do or what your main interest is. I think music especially should be enjoyed and liked in its entirety by everyone."

"All Wagner, Ring, whatever. [...] The whole Valkyrie thing was cool, 'cause it was so tied into metal. I like Wagner's strength, just the pureness of it. I like a couple of Mozart things, but mainly Wagner."

"I'm 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."