You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
LEMMYI 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 like hard, aggressive music.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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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’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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