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

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

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.

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

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

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 think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.