POLITICS


"I've seen a lot of politicians come and go and they're all the same mealy-mouthed bastards, kissing fucking babies and shaking hands with hard hats and shit and everybody knows it's a game and they still play it. Why? There are better games now! You can play all kimds of games on video. Make a game of it, right? The TV whoever shoots the most fucking spaceships, then he gets to be president. Makes as much sense as all that rigmarole you go through for a year before the election, right?" (1995)

"Normal life just isn't me. I don't agree with any politician. I think they're all cunts. Tony fucking smiley Blair, he's just the same as the last cunt. His suit's different. That's all" (1998)


(Source: Lemmy in his own words by Harry Shaw. Omnibus press)

POLITICS

Classic Rock Revisited: Last one: You have come to America from England and you make your residence here. That gives you and a different view on things. I am wondering what you think of the upcoming Presidential election.

Lemmy: I better not give you my opinion on that because I would be arrested tomorrow. I think what you think; the man is a disaster. There is no one to replace him. The best bet is... I don't think there is a best bet. I think Americans are too trusting. You trusted Bush to do a good job and then he didn't do it. I don't think a lot of people want to admit they were wrong. America is ruled by extremes. You are either extremely violent or extremely open or extremely religious. It is never about just getting along with everybody. America has always been very assertive of itself because everyone is coming here from everywhere else. Now it is the most powerful nation in the world. It only takes one guy to misdirect that power. For you to go into Iraq is like going to Vietnam. Two thousand kids ain't coming home no more because Bush wanted the oil. Now he has the oil and gas prices went up. The prices are just getting jacked up while he is in office. I am sure he is getting plenty of money from that oil. I think all politicians are assholes. I remember back in 1966 when Harold Wilson got elected in England. I went to see him speak at the public square in Manchester. I remember thinking, "What a fucking liar." I noticed that there was nobody to vote for; there was only a guy to vote against. When you have to pick the lesser of two evils then that is not a good thing. You need to have someone you can believe and have someone who will vindicate that belief. Kennedy was the last good President. Looking back on it now, Clinton wasn't so bad. He is looking pretty good now. We all bitched when he was in there but we don't have room to bitch now.

Classic Rock Revisited: My biggest disappointment with Bill is that he could have got a lot better-looking chick than Monica Lewinsky.

Lemmy: Exactly, Kennedy was fucking Marilyn Monroe. I rest my case.

(Source:Blabbermouth.net)

The full interview can be found here http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=89653

RELIGION

Lemmy:
I'm not religious. My father was a priest. Anglican vicar, church of England. He left my mother and me when I was three months old, so that let religion down, right there. Then my mother wanted to marry my stepfather and he was Roman Catholic- he'd been devout all his life- so he wrote to the Vatican to get dispensation to marry my mother because she was a divorcee. They sent him a letter-this is the Vatican, right? The fucking Pope-saying that he could only marry my mother if he declared me illegitimate. That's the church man. A fashion show for fags. So he wrote back and said, "Ex-communicate my ass," and they did. They ex-communicated him. It didn't seem to blight his happiness at all, from what I could see.

God's a crutch for people who don't know who they are. I'm responsible for what I do. And I'll take responsibility for everything I've said and everything I've done. I don't need to hide behind the devil. "Oh, the devil made me do it!" Well, you shoulda put your fingers in your fucking ears! God would've helped you put your fingers in your ears, wouldn't he? Might have even put his Holy fingers in your ears.

If I believe in anything, I believe in reincarnation because you have these flashes of memory of something you've never known before. And then you have periods of History you're really interested in and other periods you couldn't give a shit about-even though they're just as interesting as a period. But you just don't have a connection with them, somehow. Other bits you have a connection and I think it's because you were alive in those bits. That makes sense to me. But then, who says it has to make sense?

(source: Classic Rock '04)

RELIGION

Inked: Are you at all religious?

Lemmy: I'm an agnostic, really. I'll wait and see … and I can wait. But I'm not afraid of dying. What's the point of being afraid of the inevitable. I just hope it won't be in a hospital surrounded by assholes and tubes up your nose, you know? My ethic is, "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." You can be as careful as you want, but you're gonna die anyway, so why not have fun?

Inked: The world is at war and the economy and the environment are a mess. Is mankind doomed?

Lemmy: Don't kid yourself. It is too late. We're done. Pretty soon we'll all be extinct or living in hermetically sealed caves because we're poisoning the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Any questions? And it's not like we haven't known this, but businesses wanted the money more than they wanted their children to live. Isn't that wonderful? You can count on mankind every time.

(Source: Inkedmag.com-Thanks Marsallah)