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
Bruce Dickinson quotes about
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.
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.
reading festivals tents
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
dream expression years
I 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.
football trying world
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
giving training helping
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
aviation wales south
South Wales is a hub of aviation.
guy influence arthur
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
pounds want aviation
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
teenage math years
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
cutting simple shoes
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.