Bruce Dickinson Quotes

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

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

I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.

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.

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

If you dream something, it might happen. If you never dream it, it will never happen.

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.

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

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.

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

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

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

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.

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.

King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.

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

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

Bullying happens because weak people need to prop up their ego by beating up or humiliating others.

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

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

In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.

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

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

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

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) 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?!?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside ... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

Nothing in childhood is ever wasted.

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

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.

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