Quotes from Lemmy

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.

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

We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.

I make a very good steak.

The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

I don't only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

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.

People don't know how to be outrageous anymore.

I don't eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that's it.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

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 like hard, aggressive music.

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 advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

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 was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.