A sharp mind, animalistic movements and the gift of being a different breed of rockstar. One that seems like he could easily be your best drinking buddy. We all love Iggy. Here are a few quotes by the man himself:
“Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.”
“A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.”
“My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of ‘the arts’ began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we’re the parents of Iggy Pop.”
“Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.”
“She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.”
“The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.”
“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.”
“Something 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.”
“Miami is nothing like me, and that’s why I need to be here – it’s the opposite. I’m practical, where this place is moody, I’m stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I’m materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual – there’s a quicksilver quality about this place.”
“‘Punk rock’ is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.”
“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.”
“I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.”
“What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.”
“I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”
“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.”
“I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.”
“I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.”
