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There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites – gone. Now that’s more the culture I’m comfortable in … I don’t like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.

Iggy Pop

Miami’s not anybody’s poor cousin. It’s an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
IGGY POP

Cities Cousins Towns
Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
IGGY POP

Blow Day Good Past
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
IGGY POP

Age Girl Loud Noise
I never say never about anything.
IGGY POP

never Say
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
IGGY POP

Art Crazy Lying
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
IGGY POP

People Sex Trying
It is very important what not to do.
IGGY POP

Feel Important People Very
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
IGGY POP

Boards Bored Work
And if somebody’s going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that’s something I have to come up with myself.
IGGY POP

Come Produce Sound
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
IGGY POP

Mirrors Thinking Wow
I’m not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don’t get “Iggy Sings.” I am also a style of music, an approach.
IGGY POP

Records Singers Style
Music is life, and life is not a business.
IGGY POP

Business Life Music
I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn’t going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
IGGY POP

Anything Creative Fire Kids Nice
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it’s full.
IGGY POP

Ideas Rocks Thinking
And it’s a – it’s a term that’s based on contempt; it’s a term that’s based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that’s rotten about rock ‘n’ roll.
IGGY POP

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

Bother Done Torn

There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites – gone. Now that’s more the culture I’m comfortable in … I don’t like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.

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There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites – gone. Now that’s more the culture I’m comfortable in … I don’t like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.

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