MOTÖRHEAD's LEMMY On Using Viagra, JIMI HENDRIX And Growing Old

Stephen Dalton of Times Online recently conducted an interview with MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Onkeeping MOTÖRHEAD's primal, bass-driven sound steady and constant:

"We make the same kind of music because we like it. What the f*** other reason is there for doing music? Within that envelope, we do push it. We've done tracks where we strayed away from it. But if you have a good idea in the first place, why not enjoy it as that?"

On his vicar father, who left soon after he was born:

"It takes two in a couple to know what happened and I've only ever heard my mother's side. They were young when they got married, at the end of the war, the whole wartime romance thing. She was probably struck by his uniform and his holiness, he was probably struck by her legs and her ass. Who knows?"

On working as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix, spending eight months out of his mind on "the best acid in the world," which was still legal:

"Jimi was an exceptionally nice geezer. Incredibly old-world manners. If a chick came into the room, he'd jump to his feet, didn't matter if she was an old biddy or whatever. He'd pull out chairs for chicks, open doors for chicks. I do that and people laugh at me. They don't cost anything, good manners."

On the reunion with his father in the early 1970s:

"He offered me a reference to be a travelling salesman, so I stood up and left. I've never seen him since. He's dead now."

On being a collector of Nazi memorabilia:

"I'm not racist at all. I just like the decorative aspect of the Nazis. I like the pageantry, the pomp. I like a parade. The bad guys always have the best uniforms."

On being antigovernment, antireligion and antiwar, but pro-choice on issues like abortion:

"Live and let live is the cornerstone of my life. I'm essentially an anarchist – you can't trust people, you know? If you gave everybody the same amount of money tomorrow, in two weeks somebody, somewhere would have most of it.'

On discovering the joys of Viagra:

"I still use it, now and again. If Percy isn't pointing at the pulchritude then he needs a bit of a push. What's wrong with that?"

On his claim to have bedded around 1,000 partners, give or take the odd 100:

"The opportunities are dwindling now because I'm so old. But I'm not complaining, I still get enough to stay cheerful."

On his views on lov:

"You can't keep guys faithful. If people want to get married and then run around, that's dishonest. If you're going to get married, get f***ing married and that's it. I never saw a chick that could stop me looking at all the others, so I didn't."

On the fact that he may never meet the perfect Mrs. Lemmy:

"I'm still looking in a sort of languorous, morbid way. But I probably missed her while I was on the road or something. It hasn't changed in 61 years, so it's probably not going to happen now."

On the fact that he sees no reason not to keep playing into his sixties and beyond:

"If you look as good as I do, why not? I don't remember there being an age limit when I started. Thou shalt not go beyond 59? F*** that. The only thing that will stop me is if I become physically unable. But what is there in retirement that could possibly be better than what I've got?"

Read the entire article at Times Online.