Iggy Pop's Quotes

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

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

I'm a travel enthusiast.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

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

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

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 started, for lack of a better term, running free.

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.