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Creativity Quote by Bruce Dickinson

"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!"

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Fame is treated here less like a prize than like a logistical problem: an inconvenience that interrupts the actual work. Dickinson’s blunt opening - “I don’t like being recognised” - isn’t coy rock-star reverse psychology; it’s a boundary-setting move from someone whose public identity is louder than his private ambitions. The pivot matters: “I have no interest in being famous at all” isn’t anti-success, it’s anti-visibility. He wants the results (the show, the song, the craft) without the ambient surveillance that comes with being a walking logo.

The line “I just do what I do” reads like a refusal to let celebrity rewrite the story of his life. It’s also a subtle defense against the idea that artists owe the public access: if the work is the point, then the constant demand for the person behind it starts to look like noise. For a frontman - someone literally built to command attention - that tension is the subtext. He performs as a job, not as a 24/7 identity.

Then he reaches for Captain Kirk and the transporter: a nerdy, charming metaphor that doubles as a fantasy of control. He’s not dreaming of disappearing; he’s dreaming of toggling. Beam in for the meaningful moment, beam out before fame turns you into a public utility. It’s funny, but it lands because it names a modern truth: recognition is friction, and privacy has become the rarest backstage pass.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Dickinson, Bruce. (2026, January 17). I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-being-recognised-i-have-no-interest-39870/

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Dickinson, Bruce. "I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!" FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-being-recognised-i-have-no-interest-39870/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!" FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-being-recognised-i-have-no-interest-39870/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Bruce Dickinson (born August 7, 1958) is a Musician from England.

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