Good manners don't cost nothing.

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.

I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

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.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

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 don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

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

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

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

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

As for what other people think of me, I don't care. I don't care and never have.

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

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 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'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.

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.

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.

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 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.

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

I like hard, aggressive music.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

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

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

All my dreams came true. There's not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can't imagine that.

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.

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

'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.

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.

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

I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.

I wasn't any good at playing tennis.

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.

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.

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

I've never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I'd marry her.

I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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