Bruce Dickinson Quotations

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

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

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.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

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

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.

In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

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.

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

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.