I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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 don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I 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.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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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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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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