Iggy Pop Quotes

"Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve."
"I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets."
"I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival."
"I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild."
"I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising."
"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."
"I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway."
"I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am."
"If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop."
"Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show."
"Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive."
"She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next."
"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."
"Well, I've never had any sort of macho revulsion of fags, but Bowie and I - never, never, never, never."
"Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge."
"What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen."
"You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know?"