LEMMY: 'I'm In Love With All The Women I've Ever Been With'

February 26, 2011

Joanna Huffa of Toronto, Ontario, Canada's Now magazine recently conducted an interview with MOTÖRHEAD frontman and rock icon Lemmy Kilmister. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On having spent the past 40 years making uncompromising music that has never pandered to fads:

Lemmy: "You should never interfere with the quality of something just to get it out quick. That's a great failing of today's world. A lot of people like to get things done right now or yesterday so you don't have a glitch in the sales record or whatever it is. But it's not worth hurrying up. It's not worth going off half-done."

On living in Los Angeles:

Lemmy: "Until I came to live here, we were unknown. We were a definite cult-following thing, which basically means that no one is buying your albums.

"A lot of people have this preconception of L.A. as full of crooks and liars and shit like that, but it's not, you know. There are phony assholes everywhere — you just get used to the local ones. At least in California they're easier to spot, because you can hear them coming a quarter-mile away. They're always talking the loudest."

On being more popular than ever:

Lemmy: "It's nice to be popular; I'm not gonna say it's not, you know. But now I'm too old to enjoy it. There was a time when I would've given them girls a run for their money, but you get to 60 and that slips away a little bit. It's not slipped away altogether, believe me, but it doesn't assume the importance it did when you're 25. You never think anything's gonna fade away until it's gone and you think, 'Shit, what's happened to that?'"

On his sexual reputation:

Lemmy: "I'm in love with all the women I've ever been with, or else I wouldn't have been with them. That's why I don't kiss and tell. I think that's a terrible thing. Having sex is really personal between the two of you; it should never be talked about with anybody else. It should not even arise."

Read the entire interview from Now magazine.

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