Quotes from Bruce Dickinson

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

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.

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

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 whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

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

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

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 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.

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

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

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

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

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.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

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.

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

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.