Lemmy Page #10

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it's the only way

d lt'll stop you on a dime,

you can't stop it

d I'm telling you one more time

d It ain't no crime

d Rock it

d Say it

d Rock and roll music

gonna stop the world

d Can't lose it

d lt'll make your toenails curl,

you can't defuse it

d Gonna hear it all the time,

it's the only way

d Gonna make you feel all right

d You can't excuse it

d I'm telling you one more time,

it ain't no crime

d Rock it

d Rock it, rock it d

That's all right.

It's the biggest thing

that's ever happened to me. It's huge.

I love that guy!

He's so much nicer

than I thought he would be.

- Why is that?

- He's really humble.

I thought he'd be like,

"I don't give a sh*t."

When I said, "Your music

really means something to me,"

he looks at me and says,

"Thank you."

That really means something to me.

To look at, he's very intimidating,

but this is one of the nicest guys

you could ever meet.

So many people hit him for stuff

and you just look at him.

Most of the people in his position

would not pay attention

to half of these things, and this is a guy

who'd go out of his way to help anybody.

You see it in his heart.

I was married before, right,

and we were all on the road together.

My husband was a huge...

My husband, Matthew, had come

from Indiana, just a Redneck kid.

He idolised Lemmy -

huge Motrhead fan.

So we're on tour with Motrhead,

and me and Lemmy

immediately have this connection.

My marriage was heavily

on the rocks, you know.

Lemmy - my husband just

wouldn't talk to him or anything.

Lemmy would come up with T-shirts

and be like, "Hey, Matt," you know.

And when we actually separated,

he was telling all these people in town...

We were from Athens, Georgia,

so it's a small town.

He was telling all these people that

me and Lemmy were having this affair.

So he...

Eight months later he... died.

When I was going through his things -

his mother gave me his things -

I found a letter from Lemmy.

He had written him a letter

saying, you know,

"I know at one point

you really liked my band.

"Just so that you know, for the record,

Corey and I are really good friends.

"There is mutual love

and respect there.

"She did nothing but talk about

how much she loved you.

"I would never cross that line.

I'm not that type of man."

And it was just so cute,

because when you read the letter,

it was like, "I know at one time

you liked me and my band,"

and it's Lemmy of f***ing Motrhead!

It's so bizarre, but he wrote

this really beautiful letter to him

with the red candle wax

with the stamp on it on the back

and sent it to him.

That type of sh*t, man.

You know, it's like...

He's a very, very honourable,

generous, good, good man.

He's very much

a complex emotional person

but there is a kind of a distance

that he's purposely put

in between there.

Do you know what I mean?

And I think a lot of that is,

from what he tells me,

from his youth,

and how he's always had

to look out for himself.

He's realised that 90% of the time

the only person

he can depend on is himself.

Tell me about

the most important people in your life.

My mother, obviously,

cos she brought me up on her own.

And my granny

for filling in during the day.

They were really important.

They really dictated

my outlook on things.

Being brought up

by two women is different

from having the big heavy husband

in the house.

So I never got, "Let's go out

and kill small furry animals, son."

I never had that sh*t going on.

I just never missed a father because

I never had one so I didn't care.

He was just a miserable

little d*ckhead with glasses

and all he ever did for me

was walk out on me.

I think I understand women

a lot better than some guys do.

Women want

the same things as guys do.

They just don't want them for as long.

Guys want the quick f***

in the alley all their lives.

Girls get tired of that pretty quick.

They want security.

Security means you have to give up

everything that might be a risk to that,

which is why I'm not married.

My dad once went out with a woman

that he really fell in love with

when he was very young -

he must have been about 17.

And this girl died

of a heroin overdose.

You know, my dad is anti-heroin.

He will not have anything to do

with someone who is on smack.

But this girl,

and I think it's because of this girl,

because he really loved this girl,

and she...

He found her in the bathtub.

He found her dead in the tub.

I think that, as I can recall,

he sat in an armchair

for, like, three days.

He hasn't been able

to feel the same way

about any other woman

since that woman.

That might be a part

of why he is the way he is.

I don't miss her any more.

It's been a long time. '73.

That's a long enough time.

I can't even...

Some of the time

you can't even picture her face.

I can picture Suzy's.

She was all right.

She died young and left

a beautiful corpse, you know.

When they do that, it's easy

to think that they were the one.

She probably wasn't,

cos she was

a mouthy little b*tch as well.

But she was great at the same time.

For a woman to be really interesting,

she's got to be

something of a b*tch, surely.

Somebody going, "Yes, sir," all the time,

that's no f***ing good, is it?

You want somebody to give you

a run for your money.

No relationship can survive

a guy or girl being in a rock band

unless the other partner

is also in a rock band.

And even then it's difficult.

You're away seven months of the year.

Nobody's going to stand for that.

Either they go with you,

which doesn't work,

or they sit at home

and have affairs.

Or if they take care of the kids,

they're building up resentment

cos they think you're having

a whale of a time on the road.

It can't work.

It's one of those things.

You have to make up your mind

between rock and roll or your beloved,

and since sex only lasts

half an hour at the very top

and a rock and roll set

lasts an hour and a half,

I think we got that one sorted out.

Do you ever stop filming?

Huh?

What a pity

you haven't got smell-on-vision.

Here you are.

'D Here's a little song I wrote

'd You might want to sing it

note for note

'd Don't worry

'd Be happy

'd Don't worry, be happy now

'd Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo

'd Don't worry

'd Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo

'd Be happy

'd Don't worry, be happy d'

d Well, if I'm in heaven

d Or if I'm in hell

d Don't matter to me

d Cos I'm under your spell

d I'm playing haste

d Trying to make you see

d Don't matter to me

d I'm over my head

d And I'm driving to shore

d Don't matter to me

d Like I told you before

d I'll sleep like a stone

d If you're leaving me

d Don't matter to me

d Babe, you know I love you

d But you can't break my heart

d I wanna be here with you

d But you're tearing me apart

d I want you to be the only one

d I want you to be mine

d But if you're gonna be this way

d I just don't have the time

d I don't know if I should stay

d Or if I should go

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