Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg, Jr., known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He was the vocalist of influential proto-punk band The Stooges, who reunited in 2003, and is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth21 April 1947
CityMuskegon, MI
CountryUnited States of America
morning faces lifetime
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
focus looks looking-forward
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
pay unexpected curious
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
philosophy bags life-is
Life is just a bag of pot.
scare needs world
What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare
thinking ideas keys
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.
real pussy pulling
Pussy power's pulling me down, down, down, down. When it's there and I can't have it, I get real real rabid.
style singers records
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.
coffee thinking lunch
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.
eggs fists joints
Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
getting-older getting-high stage
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
sex people trying
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
bars ifs depends
If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets,
garden toilets yards
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.