Bruce dickinson

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.

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my...

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

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...

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.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

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...

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.