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.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

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

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

I am emphatically not a Nazi.

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.

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

Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.

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?

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

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

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.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

Gay people are made and not born.

People don't know how to be outrageous anymore.

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 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 don't eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that's it.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.

I don't only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.

Eddie Cochran - I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.

Like most housewives, I don't cook unless I have company.

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

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.

In every kid's life, there's about three or four years when you're at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you're getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is. I was lucky: I didn't get married, so I didn't have to have that responsibility.

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

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.

My hearing is usually O.K.

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?

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

I make a very good steak.

It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.

I once fell through a hole in the stage.

You can't win fame; you have to earn it. If you're given fame without working for it, then you're not going to be ready for it.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

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.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

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