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.
LEMMYI 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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 want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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