Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
LEMMYThe 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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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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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.
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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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.
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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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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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 was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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