I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
IGGY POPI have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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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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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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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.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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I never say never about anything.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, ‘We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.’
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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.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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