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.

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

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.

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.

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

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.