Ronnie James Dio Quotes

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

It's so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I'm most proud of came from a real thing in my life - 'Peter Pan' being one of those.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

My music is inspired by where I am and what I'm feeling at the time. Traveling and meeting new people is also incredibly inspiring to me.

Variety of characters and themes bring out the best in me.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.