A biography for Lemmyhasn’t been written yet.
“Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.”
“Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.”
“I am emphatically not a Nazi.”
“I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?”
“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.”
“I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.”
“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.”
“As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.”
“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'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?”
“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 always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.”
“Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.”
“As for what other people think of me, I don't care. I don't care and never have.”
“The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.”
“You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.”
“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 wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.”
“I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.”
“I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.”