Bruce Dickinson’s Perfect Answers

I tried social media. There are a number of reasons why I left it but it’s kinda hard to explain well.
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson was interviewed and gave what IMHO are the perfect answers (about 2/3 of the way down).

Iron Maiden has more than 1.3 million Twitter followers. Do you pay attention to social media?
No.

Do you have any curiosity about Twitter?
No. I understand that in this day and age everybody has to have a big social media presence, and you have to look after your social media, and blah blah blah — OK, that’s great. We’ve got a great team and they just look after the social media. I just completely ignore it. It’s as if I live in another world, devoid of Twitter, devoid of Facebook, devoid of all the bullshit that gets talked about by all of these people. I just live in my own little head world. That’s what makes the records. So I have no idea what’s going on on Twitter, and I couldn’t care less.

Is there anything in particular about social media that bothers you?
No, because I don’t let myself get bothered. I pay no attention to it. I don’t even know how to access Twitter. I mean, my mobile phone is a Nokia that I can’t even take a picture on. It’s held together with tape. That is my mobile phone, and people look at it with horror. People say, “Well, why don’t you have an iPhone?” Because it gets polluted by shit.
I’m not some kind of Luddite. I know this stuff has a value. It has no value to me personally.

Actually, it makes sense that you’d feel that way, because Iron Maiden has made a career out of refusing to assimilate into mainstream pop culture.
Yeah, the trendy things that bands do now to maintain their “pop culture” is sit there obsessing and tweeting away drivel to the unwashed masses. It’s just crap. It’s self-indulgent, narcissistic bollocks. I have no interest in that whatsoever. If I want to be self-indulgent and narcissistic, I’ll put it on a record. Don’t sit there tweeting, I don’t even know how many words you’re not allowed to say in Twitter before you run out of intelligence.