Bruce Dickinson

Im a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

— Bruce Dickinson

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

— Bruce Dickinson

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good…

— Bruce Dickinson

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

— Bruce Dickinson

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

— Bruce Dickinson

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

— Bruce Dickinson

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

— Bruce Dickinson

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it…

— Bruce Dickinson

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

— Bruce Dickinson

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

— Bruce Dickinson

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

— Bruce Dickinson

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had…

— Bruce Dickinson

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest…

— Bruce Dickinson

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

— Bruce Dickinson

King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time…

— Bruce Dickinson

In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the…

— Bruce Dickinson

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

— Bruce Dickinson

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

— Bruce Dickinson

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

— Bruce Dickinson

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

— Bruce Dickinson

When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron…

— Bruce Dickinson

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.

— Bruce Dickinson

I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so…

— Bruce Dickinson

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

— Bruce Dickinson

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…

— Bruce Dickinson