Quotes by Bruce Dickinson

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.'

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

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.

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

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

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

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

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 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.