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.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

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.

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

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

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

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.

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.

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

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

It is easier for stars to shine in darkness

Attitude is something that comes to your rescue when you're looking for help from external sources.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi

Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?