It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

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

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

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.'

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

Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.