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" I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.' "

" She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next. "

" What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show. "

" '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. "

" Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something. "

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

" 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. "

" If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop. "

" 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. "

" Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going. "

" I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert. "

" Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive. "

" 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. "

" Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. "

Looking Forward

" I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me. "

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