You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
LEMMYRock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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