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Engineering stimulates the mind.
South Wales is a hub of aviation.
I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change
Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.
Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.
Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.
I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
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.'
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.
With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
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.
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
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.
When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off
I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.
It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?
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.
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.
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.
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.
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
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 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.