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
guitar concerned
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
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.
thinking great-music manson
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
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.
aviation wales south
South Wales is a hub of aviation.
pounds want aviation
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
engineering shelves ask-me
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
iron quitting maidens
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.
artist rocks ideas
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.
mother wall book
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.
carbon-footprint trying green
I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.
dark costa-rica firsts
(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?
mean iron leaving
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.