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• I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.

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  Inspirational, Teenage, Kids

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• 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.

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  Wise, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Summer, Song, Spring

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I'd have a few on and off, but the commitment was always more on the girls' part than on mine, to be perfectly honest. So, I met a girl in Tokyo, on my Japanese tour, with whom I've been living ever since, very happily. Her name is Suchi.

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  Girl, Commitment, Names

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

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  Mom, Nice, Saint

  "What I've Learned: Iggy Pop" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

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  Done, Torn, Bother

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• And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to at least smoke a joint or something. And that didn't work anymore. Once I was fairly well cleaned out, even a little bit of a drug getting into my work threw me off kilter.

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  Song, Writing, Long

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

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  Cousin, Cities, Towns

  "Iggy Pop: 'I was looking for an elegant coma'". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.

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  New York, Miami, Spit

  Source: www.today.com

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• I never had a checkbook. It used to be cash in hand, stuff in the pocket, or a manager would keep some accounts and give me money. I started to wonder what it must feel like to actually make a profit, pay taxes, and to have a phone listing, and a manager. And also, I was sick of sleeping around every night.

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  Sleep, Night, Phones

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

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  Dark, Two, Tunes

  "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop". Interview Magazine Interview, September 1999.

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• I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. What all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.

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  New York, People, Interesting

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

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  England, Easy, Easy Going

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