Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

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.'

They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

I am healthy because of my strict diet. I can eat anything, but I don't eat everything.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.