I'll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disappearing immediately afterwards. |
I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat. |
I'm not going to do any more solo touring. |
I've always enjoyed reading lyrics, trying to do them more than just lyrics, trying to have some more meaning in them. I know a lot of people are just happy to have a kind of broken word lyrics. I just wonder why, there's no reason why they can't at least attempt to do something a bit better. |
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! |
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it. |
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. |
It is only because of my own powers that I survived the attack at all, |
King 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. |
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. |
Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. |
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. |
That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things. |
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned. |
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. |