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

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 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.'

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

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

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.