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" '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. "

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" 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. "

Iggy Pop

Spiritual

Miami

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

Iggy Pop

Taught

She

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Iggy Pop

Pop

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music. "

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

Iggy Pop

Music

Nails

" Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I'm a travel enthusiast. "

Iggy Pop

Travel

Enthusiast

" In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know. "

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