Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
Bruce DickinsonI've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
Bruce DickinsonSome 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.
Bruce DickinsonI enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
Bruce DickinsonKing in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.
Bruce Dickinson