Bruce Dickinson

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

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

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.' ”

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

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. ”

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it. ”

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. ”

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

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. ”

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. ”