Iron Maiden’s sångare Bruce Dickinson har nyligen uttalat sig att han föredrar dokumentärer och olika tal istället för att lyssna på musik under tiden bandet inte turnérar. Dickinson säger, ”I watch speech and documentaries and things like that. Music, I try to avoid listening to music unless I really, really, really consciously want to listen to music. I’ve been listening to music all the time. I prefer to either think it up or create it or do it on a piano or something. Every now and again you hear something and you sort of go, ’Hmmmm… That was nice. Who’s that?’ So I have to ask my kids. ’By the way, who’s that?'”
Han kommenterar även om han någonsin har tyckt att Iron Maiden bör uppdatera sin formula inom musiken. Dickinson säger, ”Mature our image? Why? Inside this 53-year-old exterior — 54 in August — is a 17-year-old. Actually, probably mental age, probably slightly younger. But that’s the core of why you do this thing. When you’re a kid and you experience something that makes you feel, ’Wow, walking on air.’ The first song you write, the first experiences, you have to ringfence those and guard them against what I can describe as the cynicism of the world, because the world eats into people and destroys those hopes and those dreams and things like that. And it’s those things that people call childish, those are the things, actually, that motivate us and that keeps our creativity precious; that’s what’s inside people, and they lose it at their peril. I’ve seen people that have lost it, and it’s really sad. So when I say I listen to [talk radio channel] Radio 4, it’s not because I hate the Western world of music, it’s just because I’ve got the confidence that I’ve got this little thing inside me, and if I see something and spot something and go, ’That’s brilliant. I love that,’ I know it’s real.”
