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?
— Lemmy
Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
I hate golf! I still can't believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.
I am emphatically not a Nazi.
The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.
Good manners don't cost nothing.
I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.
My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.
I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?
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.
Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
As for what other people think of me, I don't care. I don't care and never have.
I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.
I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.
I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
I like hard, aggressive music.
You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.
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.
Touring is too much fun to stop.
I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.
I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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.
My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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.
I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
I 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.
Like most housewives, I don't cook unless I have company.
I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.
I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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. I was lucky: I didn't get married, so I didn't have to have that responsibility.
I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
I'm not going to die broke, but I'm not rich.
Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
You 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.
I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. 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.
I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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.
Eddie Cochran - I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
