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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.
My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.
I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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.
From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.
I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.
I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.
I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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.
It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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 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 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.
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.
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 saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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.
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've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.
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.
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 can never be anonymous - especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 can't say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest. When you've lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.
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.