When you're trying to create imagery, you're trying to create a feeling or a mood.
I have respect for anybody that has to go and do whatever they have to do to protect their country.
I grew up loving history.
If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good combination.
When we started off, we weren't even thinking of being a global band. We just ended up becoming that.
So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.
Personally, I've got too many ideas to use in my lifetime, probably. But that's a nice problem to have, I think.
I still do get a little bit nervous at the beginning of Maiden tours but that's mainly because of the new material.
As you get older it gets doubly hard to keep yourself fit and in shape.
This seems to break with the spirit of our open meeting laws.
It's about the music for us. Always has been. The bottom line is the music.
I find it natural to write on the bass, and a lot of people find that really odd.
The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.
The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.
The thing that annoys me is that I hate it when people charge bands to play with them. I hate that.
