Bruce Dickinson

“Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll...”

“Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.”

“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.”

“Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.”

“There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.”

“There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.”

“I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.”

“When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or what...”

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

“Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.”

“Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.”

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

“When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.”

“I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.”

“Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.”

“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 think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start somethi...”

“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.”

“One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole...”

“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.”