Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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I make a very good steak.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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