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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.

Iggy Pop

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
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Mirrors Thinking Wow
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.
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People Sex Trying
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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House Mean Pimp
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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Anything Creative Fire Kids Nice
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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Boards Bored Work
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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Culture Skins
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 have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Hot Memories Survival
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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Influential Much Thinking Too
Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Business Life Music
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Hallucinations Heard Music
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
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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Believe Boys Whales
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.
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Feelings Giving People
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 like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Bother Done Torn
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Circle Cliche Full Life
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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Age Girl Loud Noise
The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful.
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Beautiful Diamond Nuts
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Bowie Men Real
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
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Curious Pay Unexpected
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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Come Produce Sound
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Getting Getting Older High Stage
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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Blow Day Good Past
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

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