Iggy Pop Quotes

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

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

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

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.

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

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

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

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

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

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

The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.

The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

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.

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

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

It is very important what not to do.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

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.'

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

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

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.

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

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

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 I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.

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

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

I'm not the kind of person that likes to be dependent.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

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

Life is just a bag of pot.

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

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.

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

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

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

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

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.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

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.