Quotes from Bruce Dickinson

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

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.

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.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

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.

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.

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

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.

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

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!

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

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

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 was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

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 something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

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 have an engineer for life.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

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

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

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