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.If the God that everyone prays to is such a wonderful God he wouldn't have people suffering so horribly as they are. 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.His answer to the question who the dancer is in the Black Sabbath song " Heaven and Hell", AOL chat session, June 5, 1999.Noone seems to care much for those they can't control.
The dancer is the free spirit unfettered by chains and not confined by four walls.Speaking on the Bible, interview by Doug Van Pelt, HM Magazine (1998).I think that things were put in there to capture a group of people so they would follow a religion. I think Whoever put it together did quite an interesting job, but I think that it was. Speaking on hard rock and heavy metal fans being interested in classical music, interview by Steve Newton, 1985.I think music especially should be enjoyed and liked in its entirety by everyone. I don't think that it matters what you do or what your main interest is. 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.Dio’s Live At The Spectrum, 25 August 1984.
Speaking on the Rainbow song " Stargazer", interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Vanguard (March 1976).That was my way of saying that the common man will always rise above the leader who oppresses them. 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.