The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

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.'

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.

But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.