I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
LEMMYThe hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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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 always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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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.
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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.
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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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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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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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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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