I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
They say that death kills you, But death doesn’t kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn’t know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.
I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
Cigarettes and coffee, man, that’s a combination.
It’s more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
I’m not ashamed to dress “like a woman” because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.
It is very important what not to do.
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.
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don’t check out.
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.
I’ve probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.