There was a time when I wanted to get out of the Western world. I went down to Grenada and looked at a place, and I realised that if I lived in a Gre….

Nihilism is best done by professionals..

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth..

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

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then ….

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

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist..

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palac….

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 to….

Music is life, and life is not a business..

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends..

Well, it wasn't like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke - but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked u….

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll….

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful..

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 dem….

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail..

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan,….

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board..

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you..

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 certa….

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