Lemmy

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

“The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.”

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

“My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.”

“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.”

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

“I hate golf! I still can't believe Alice Cooper plays golf!”

“Gay people are made and not born.”

“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.”

“Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.”

“My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.”

“I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.”

“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.”

“Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.”

“I'm not going to die broke, but I'm not rich.”

“Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.”

“I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.”

“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 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 can never be anonymous - especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?”