Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change
My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.
I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
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.
Some 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.
With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off
I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
You 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.
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
