I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
Bruce DickinsonThe celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
Bruce DickinsonAnybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
Bruce DickinsonYou 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.
Bruce DickinsonIn my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.
Bruce Dickinson