“From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.”

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.

It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.

A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.

I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.

Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.

I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

In America the biggest is the best.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

In a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.