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

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

There's a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica's 'And Justice for All.' If you listen to a little bit of that before you go on stage, you're pretty much set for the whole show.

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

Music is about the performance.

The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.