Well, it wasn’t like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke – but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.
IGGY POPBowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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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Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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.
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If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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.
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