Don’t ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering. — Bruce Dickinson

Life is too short to do things we don’t love doing. — Bruce Dickinson

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. — Bruce Dickinson

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. — Bruce Dickinson

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. — Bruce Dickinson

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. — Bruce Dickinson

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long–winded. — Bruce Dickinson

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 — Bruce Dickinson

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. — Bruce Dickinson

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I’m going to retire from rock n’ roll. — Bruce Dickinson

I had been asked to add a further three–hour rock show, but I protested that there wasn’t enough quality new music to sustain six hours a week. — Bruce Dickinson

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

Rock stars, of course, have long had the capacity to act like babies, but have not had the sense to sing like them. — Bruce Dickinson

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. — Bruce Dickinson

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. — Bruce Dickinson

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. — Bruce Dickinson

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

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

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. — Bruce Dickinson

There are a lot of bands using self–abuse as a marketing gimmick. — Bruce Dickinson

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we’d be a lot better off. — Bruce Dickinson

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative. — Bruce Dickinson

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

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much. — Bruce Dickinson