I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
LEMMYI don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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.
LEMMYGay people are made and not born.
LEMMYHuman nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
LEMMYNobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
LEMMYWhen you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
LEMMYPeople don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
LEMMYI was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
LEMMYEddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
LEMMYI think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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 can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
LEMMYI never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
LEMMYFrom the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
LEMMYSome songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
LEMMYI don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
LEMMY