123 Quotes by Bruce Dickinson

I’m not going to do any more solo touring.

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.’

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!

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don’t do songs from outside people.

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

I don’t have interns. I don’t have a manager. I don’t have assistants. I don’t have a secretary. I can’t figure out Outlook Express. I’m the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

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.

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

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