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" 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. "

Iggy Pop

Sky

Day

Good

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

" 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. "

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

Iggy Pop

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" 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. "

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

" I'm a travel enthusiast. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Iggy Pop

Stuff

Plumbing

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift. "

" 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 became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.' "

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

Iggy Pop

Taught

She

" I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff. "

Iggy Pop

Healthy

Different

" 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. "

" '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. "