"There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit."
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"If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off."
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"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."
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"I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much."
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"Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing."
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"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."
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"Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage."
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"I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be."
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"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."
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"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers."
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"I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people."
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"If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks."
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"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.'"
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"Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change"
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"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."
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"Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun."
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"Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life."
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"If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll."
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"I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job."
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"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!"
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