“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.”

It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

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.

You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.

It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.

It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.

It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.

A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.

I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.

Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.

I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.

I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.

My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn’t matter where you came from, what you did.

100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory,

And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.

we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up;