Lemmy

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?

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.

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

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

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.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

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

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.

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.

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.

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