Quotes from Iggy Pop

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

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.

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.

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

I'm a travel enthusiast.

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.

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 have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

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.