I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
LEMMYI listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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.
LEMMYPeople don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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.
LEMMYRock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
LEMMYKids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
LEMMYI wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
LEMMYAs for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
LEMMYIt’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.
LEMMYI don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
LEMMYI always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
LEMMYIt’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
LEMMYI wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
LEMMYSome songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
LEMMYI like hard, aggressive music.
LEMMYI was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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