Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson, known professionally as Bruce Dickinson, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, airline pilot, author and broadcaster. He is best known as the lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden and is renowned for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence...
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth7 August 1958
CityWorksop, England
attack powers survived
It is only because of my own powers that I survived the attack at all,
aficionado asked sign
I was asked to sign a bunny, a real one! I am not an aficionado of bunnies.
break english-musician happening huge maiden record recording taking
I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
english-musician everybody generic good putting record stuff thinking
There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.
album english-musician good iron managing next nice quiet quite releasing solo time
Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
attracted fencing form romance seemed
I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.
audience audiences bit kick nuts until wake
Well, if it's the audience is a bit lagging we kick them in the nuts until they wake up!
disgusted fans good money paid
We could tell there were a lot of disgusted fans who had paid good money to see us.
band business left
When I left the band, what the band did is really their own business. And their career-they got on with it, and I got on with my career.
touring solo
I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
thinking great-music manson
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
groundhog-day determined regimes
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.
kings philosophical men
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.
mcdonalds going-for-it salary
I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.