172 Quotes by Iggy Pop

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

I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make it sell as much as I could, but I only went in thinking of a sound I wanted. So, it's no surprise to me that he got the hit and I didn't. But what I realized was that he did dress it up nicely, and my god, he does sing on key well.

Pussy power's pulling me down, down, down, down. When it's there and I can't have it, I get real real rabid.

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.

You know what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long - you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It's like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch.

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

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

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

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