Bruce Dickinson Quotes
We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?
I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
