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.
LEMMYWe’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.
LEMMYWe 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.
LEMMYI was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
LEMMYI was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
LEMMYAll 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.
LEMMYPeople don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
LEMMYEveryone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
LEMMYI was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
LEMMYI 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.
LEMMYI saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
LEMMYGrowing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
LEMMYI can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
LEMMYThe 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.
LEMMYI like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
LEMMYThe hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
LEMMYFrom the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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