Bruce Dickinson

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

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.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.