It's easy to make stuff, kind of, by numbers, and it gets easier the better you are. Most times, it's because it's about an emotional state which everybody has to be in - everybody has to lock in and in synch and the sound has to be right and everything has to be… so that you can just play in a way that sounds special in a relaxed and, sort of, human way. So you either have to wait thirty years before you do a record or something else like that… But if you want to keep doing records, it's very hard to come up with things that feel genuinely different. And after that, it's extremely hard - it gets kind of exponentially hard - to create that same excitement. If you look at bands' early careers - I mean, everybody from… you know, major bands - they crack out one, two, three, maybe four records maybe in as many years or less, and that stuff is - if they're really successful - that will be the bedrock of the next twenty-five years, if they carry on for that long they'll still be playing some of those songs twenty-five years later, because that's it. Getting everybody together in one place in the right mood… And it really is down to stuff like that. And that's the problem - albums don't come around that often these days. "The trouble is, when you inhabit being in a band like MAIDEN and you see what the individual musicians are actually capable of, when they're just messing around and not being recorded, you think, 'Wow! There's so much more stuff that we could do.' It's just a question of getting us to do it all at once in the right place at the right time, with the right kind of feel, and just capture that. On IRON MAIDEN's musical evolution over the years: As I say, I don't wanna do too much talking about his words, 'cause they're his words, but I sing them, so I do get a kind of a vibe off them that's a little bit different on this record." And I think people start to feel their own mortality a bit and you start to bring that into the music a little bit. I mean, some of them were in quite early days - back in the '80s - but recently the rate of loss, sadly, tends to accelerate the further down the track you go. "I think, as we've been going down the track - yeah, we're all getting older and everything and all the rest of it - we've lost a few friends along the way. You know, his lyrics have changed over the years, and, obviously, 'cause I've been singing them, I've noticed the way that his use of language has started to change and the more, kind of, personal nature of some of the subject matter has become a little bit more… There's a little bit more nakedness going on there. So four out of the ten or eleven songs are my lyrics and the rest of them are Steve's. So, generally, if Steve co-writes a song, he tends to write the lyrics, unless he writes the song with me, in which case I'll probably write the lyrics, or we may write between us or whatever. And there's only two of us in the band, really, that write lyrics - myself and Steve. "I don't think we could get into huge concepts… Well, we didn't get into huge concepts on the album. On the lyrical themes covered on IRON MAIDEN's new album, "The Book Of Souls": A couple of excerpts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). Shad of CBC Radio One's arts and culture program "Q" recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson.
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