Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
IGGY POPI have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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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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I never say never about anything.
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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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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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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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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, 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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It is very important what not to do.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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I 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
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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