A biography for Lemmyhasn’t been written yet.
“Good manners don't cost nothing.”
“I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.”
“I like hard, aggressive music.”
“My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.”
“Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.”
“Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.”
“I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.”
“Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.”
“Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.”
“The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.”
“It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.”
“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.”
“In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.”
“Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.”
“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 do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.”
“Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.”