“Good manners don’t cost nothing.”

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.

You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.

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.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.

It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.

It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.

A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.

I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.

Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.

I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.

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.

There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.

A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.

Nothing succeeds like address.

You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.