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.
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 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.
Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don’t do songs from outside people.
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.
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that’s certain in this life is that I’ll never be a fashion icon.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan – what’s she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
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.
Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.
I’m very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
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.
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.
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it’s also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I’m concerned.
Rock music should be gross: that’s the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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.
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.