How Am I Going To Listen To

I Don't Think I'm Lucky; I Think I Have A Tough Constitution. That's A Lot Of It. And I've Been Wise Enough To Listen To Other People. I Was Unconsciously Cultivating As Many Straight Friends As I Could.

There Are No Pimps, No Whores, No Transvestites - Gone. Now That's More The Culture I'm Comfortable In ... I Don't Like It In The House, You Know What I Mean, But I Like It Somewhere Around.

Punk Rock Is A Word Used By Dilettantes And Heartless Manipulators About Music That Takes Up The Energies, The Bodies, The Hearts, The Souls, The Time And The Minds Of Young Men Who Give Everything They Have To It.

In The Morning I'd Write These Essays, Anything That I'd Feel Like Writing, And In The Afternoon, I'd Spend Time With My Guitar. I Had Decided After Listening To My Last Four Or Five Albums That My Biggest Weakness Musically Was Melody. The Reason I Had Been Singing In A Monotone Over The Chord Patterns In My Songs Was That I Never Practiced Doing Melodies.

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.'