I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

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.

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

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.'

Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce

Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.

It was strange even after suffering from fate, a person in love would choose the same fate over his life.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

It's always nice being fancied. It's always nice being wanted. Even it it's by the wrong person.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.