Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
LEMMYWe’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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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I never thought it was an option.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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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Gay people are made and not born.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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I 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.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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