I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POPI have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POPMy 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.
IGGY POPReally good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
IGGY POPBowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
IGGY POPIt is very important what not to do.
IGGY POPPussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
IGGY POPWhat some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
IGGY POPAnd 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 POPWell, 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.
IGGY POPI spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else’s car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me
IGGY POPOnstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
IGGY POPSomething I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.
IGGY POPThe 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 POPIf 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.
IGGY POPI 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.
IGGY POPMiami’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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