“I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.”

I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.

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.

The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.

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.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.

I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?

I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

I’m totally not against plastic surgery. I’ve tried Botox before. That’s the only thing that I’ve done.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.

You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide.