The Number of the Beast was my favorite album as long as any album has been my favorite album.  I so wanted to be in Iron Maiden but those guys were at least five years older than me,  maybe ten.  It was clearly too late to start a music career...  The album is thirty years older now and me,  I've made multiple new starts and discovered that it is never too late.  It will never be too late.  To do anything I want to do.  I wish I could tell young John.