 I started writing what I felt was Bat Out of Hell part 2 , definitely like The Godfather part I and part 2 , that 's how I saw it . I wanted to do a continuation and I wanted to do an album that went even further and that was more extreme , if possible , which a lot of people felt wasn 't possible but I just wanted to see if I could make a record that was even more heroic because that 's what I thought of it ... Bat Out of Hell to me was ultimately very heroic though it was funny ... and I wanted to do one that to me would be even more heroic and more epic and a little more operatic and passionate . 
