Legendary IRON MAIDEN men - founding bassist Steve Harris and singer Bruce Dickinson - spoke with Thomas H. Green from Telegraph.co.uk recently about a number of topics including the band's forthcoming album, The Final Frontier. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Dickinson on being overshadowed by Eddie: "I don’t see why anyone would want to photograph us. It’s not like we’re budding George Clooneys. We don’t want to be recognised really, except for what we do. The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan – what’s she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair. Maybe we’re some kind of antidote to that.”

Harris on overcoming '70s punk scene in Britain: "Punk was only important in that we hated it and didn’t want anything to do with it. Punk came out at the time we were doing pub gigs and it was very difficult for us to get work because we didn’t look right. We were around before punk, from ’75, and then when punk began to really happen in ’77 people started making those comparisons which really annoyed us because we didn’t want them.”

Harris on Dickinson leaving the band in 1993: "I was a bit down when Bruce left - going through a divorce, probably at my lowest ebb ever, and for a couple of hours I thought about it [finishing Iron Maiden]. Then I thought, 'What are you doing? Just get out there and bloody do it’.”

Dickinson on Maiden fans being a breed apart: "“We seem to have more regenerations than Dr. Who. What’s good is that when each new generation discovers the band it’s usually on the cusp of a new album, then they work their way though the older albums.”

Read the entire interview here.