Quotes by Iggy Pop

“I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.”

“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”

“I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.”

“Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball o...”

“I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.”

“I'm a travel enthusiast.”

“My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.”

“I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just start...”

“Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.”

“I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.”

“I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh... and, uh... heartless manipulators, about music... that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and th...”

“What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.”

“The industrialism in Detroit...what I heard walking around...boom boom bah - 10 cars...boom boom bah - 20 cars...I get a lot of my influence from the electric shaver...”

“I think I helped wipe out the sixties.”

“I feel like God peed on all my enemies. For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored mus...”

“You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.”

“Everybody's a little more worldly now, and there's more exposure to things. When I made Fun House, back in 1970, nobody wanted to interview me. It was wonderful. I was like one of those little whit...”

“I wore that because it makes me look beautiful. I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, Wow, I'm really great-looking. ... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.”

“This town is diverse as shit. I like it here a lot.”

“Yeah, she's heard the war stories ... I tell it all to her. I think one has to, because one wants to know somebody, and one wants to feel that somebody knows one. I mean, the embarrassment quotient...”