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.
LEMMYElvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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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.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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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Gay people are made and not born.
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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’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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Rock 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’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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