"Engineering stimulates the mind."
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"Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact."
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"You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold."
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"Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative."
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"When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people."
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"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"
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"A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded."
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"Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon."
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"I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism."
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"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 get drunk."
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"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 really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”"
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"The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair."
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"I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig."
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"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover."
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"It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?"
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"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 middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun."
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"I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers."
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"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
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"The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned."
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"I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard."
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