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.

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.