Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
LEMMYElvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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When 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.
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Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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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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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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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The 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.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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