Quotes from Lemmy

My hearing is usually O.K.

I once fell through a hole in the stage.

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.

Like most housewives, I don't cook unless I have company.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

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.

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'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.

I was in the Rockin' Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain. A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

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.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

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 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.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

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.