Quotes by Bruce Dickinson

• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
• When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
• 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.
• 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 more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
• Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
• 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!
• 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.
• I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
• I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
• A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.