“Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.”

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.

I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.

Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.

Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

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.

I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.

It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

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.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure’s gone we learn what to treasure.

Cause people lose it, they lose it – they say: ‘I like that, and that’s not this.’

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I’ve always had the power of foresight.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.