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

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..

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 ha….

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

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 g….

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.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull..

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit..

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing..

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

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun..

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

In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave ….

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

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

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 ….

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

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

King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of t….

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage..

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 ma….