Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
– Iggy Pop
I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets.
– Iggy Pop
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
– Iggy Pop
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
– Iggy Pop
I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.
– Iggy Pop
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.
– Iggy Pop
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
– Iggy Pop
I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am.
– Iggy Pop
If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
– Iggy Pop
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.
– Iggy Pop
Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
– Iggy Pop
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
– Iggy Pop
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.
– Iggy Pop
Well, I've never had any sort of macho revulsion of fags, but Bowie and I - never, never, never, never.
– Iggy Pop
Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
– Iggy Pop
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
– Iggy Pop
You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know?
– Iggy Pop
Nihilism is best done by professionals.
– Iggy Pop
My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
– Iggy Pop
I'm a travel enthusiast.
– Iggy Pop
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.