I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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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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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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 hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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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 didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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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 don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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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 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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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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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