In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
LEMMYMy father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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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 don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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