I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

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

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.

Kerrang asked us to do a heavy metal tribute to one of our favorite heavy metal bands. We had already been jamming out on 'Walk,' so we're like, 'OK. We'll record it for you guys.'

There are no apologies for being a female in heavy metal and especially not in 2019.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You're required to be involved.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

I don't think I'd be healthy if I only were a heavy metal singer.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

'Epicloud' is the first record that I felt confident enough to include all those things on one record, so it goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff, and it's all in one place.