Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

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.

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.'

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people are looking for and what they disagree with.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Do I open it? Do I open it? Of course I freaking open it!

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.