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My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

'Metal Gear Solid' is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.

I don't like necessarily that people think 'Metal Gear' defines me. I love 'Metal Gear,' don't get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games.

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

Give metal a chance!

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.