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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.

Iggy Pop

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Curious Pay Unexpected
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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Culture Skins
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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Eggs Fists Joints
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People
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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Dark Tunes Two
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it’s just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight – audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Palaces People Uptight
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Hallucinations Heard Music
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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Garden Use Yards
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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Legs Suave Successful Terrible
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Circle Cliche Full Life
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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Antics People Shows
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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Coke Heroin Ounce Running
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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Age Girl Loud Noise
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Getting Getting Older High Stage
It is very important what not to do.
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Feel Important People Very
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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Art Crazy Lying

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 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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