Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
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.
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.
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
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.
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.
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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.
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
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.
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
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.
Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.
