All The Diamonds In The World, the image-laden song from 1973 was written in Stockholm on the day after Cockburn realized he was a Christian. He comments on Christianity, and how he views the song so many years later.

"It’s emotional, in a way. It marks a signal moment in my life. It’s there. But I have to think when I perform it now, because I don’t want to be associated with certain aspects of the Christian culture and tradition. I’m not so inclined to think of the imagery of what we associate with Christianity – the guy on the cross with the beard. It’s not so much that, as it is about what we call the Holy Spirit."

15 June 2010- from Bruce Cockburn Set for Luminato Honours - 40 Years of songs to Live By by Brad Wheeler.