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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.

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.
IGGY POP

Mirrors Thinking Wow
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
IGGY POP

Country People Pops Terrorize
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
IGGY POP

Getting Getting Older High Stage
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POP

Hot Memories Survival
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.
IGGY POP

Blow Day Good Past
Music is life, and life is not a business.
IGGY POP

Business Life Music
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
IGGY POP

Art Crazy Lying
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
IGGY POP

Boards Bored Work
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.
IGGY POP

Believe Boys Whales
It is very important what not to do.
IGGY POP

Feel Important People Very
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.
IGGY POP

Coke Heroin Ounce Running
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.
IGGY POP

Palaces People Uptight
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.
IGGY POP

Feelings Giving People
I never say never about anything.
IGGY POP

never Say
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.
IGGY POP

Come Produce Sound
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
IGGY POP

Car Illegal Riding Things

If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.

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