I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. — Lou Reed

Music is life, and life is not a business. — Iggy Pop

Life is just a bag of pot. — Iggy Pop

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism. — Iggy Pop

David’s friendship was the light of my life. i never met such a brilliant person. he was the best there is. — Iggy Pop

Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving. — Iggy Pop

Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy–going. — Iggy Pop

I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. — Iggy Pop

What the world needs right now… a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare — Iggy Pop

I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone. — Iggy Pop

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play. — Lou Reed

I love women, I think they’re great. — Lou Reed

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love. — Iggy Pop

Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it’s good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You’re not going to change your mind about it ten years later. — Iggy Pop

I’m not the kind of person that likes to be dependent. — Iggy Pop

If it has more than three chords, it’s jazz. — Lou Reed

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz. — Lou Reed

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche. — Iggy Pop

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I’ll put on board shorts. — Iggy Pop

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day. — Iggy Pop

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. — Lou Reed

That’s why I survived because I still believe I’ve got something to say. — Lou Reed

If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am. — Iggy Pop

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great–looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway. — Iggy Pop

For a while, I felt a little self–impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about. — Lou Reed

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. — Iggy Pop

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

The more walking–around money I have, the less I walk around. — Iggy Pop

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 destroy you and kill you. — Iggy Pop

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

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 you’ll get your show. — Iggy Pop

And if somebody’s going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that’s something I have to come up with myself. — Iggy Pop

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. — Lou Reed

In the late ’70s I started to search for the perfect sound–whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock’n’roll lifestyle. — Lou Reed

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable… There is a sound you hear in your head, it’s your nerves, or your blood running. — Lou Reed

The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful. — Iggy Pop

It is very important what not to do. — Iggy Pop

I think I just don’t know. — Lou Reed

Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination — Iggy Pop

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. — Iggy Pop

I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert. — Iggy Pop

I don’t mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it’s the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six? — Lou Reed

I never say never about anything. — Iggy Pop

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. — Iggy Pop

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. — Lou Reed

I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. — Iggy Pop

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? — Lou Reed

Music was what bothered me, what interested me. — Lou Reed

The music business doesn’t interest me anymore. — Lou Reed