I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
LEMMYYou 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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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 look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I never thought it was an option.
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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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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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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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I make a very good steak.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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