'Yeah. It was all uphill. And he still couldn't play bass when he died, I mean, fucking hell. Well, and everybody knows that, just listen to the Sex Pistols record that he was on, you know, you can tell it's Steve standing in for him. In fact I'm not sure if Sid was ever on the record, I think it was Steve who played bass.' -On a time when Sid Vicious asked Lemmy to teach him to play the bass.

'Born to lose, Live to win.'

'To have a relationship is fatal to the relationship.'

'If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll then you are.'

On jazz: 'Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other coun…

When I was 14 or 15 I was into the whole Spice Girls and I was a huge fan, but two years ago I heard The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and…

I think punk rock is dead, and has been for a long time. Any time people can start using a word to describe how people dress as opposed to what music is like s…