Iggy Pop Quotes

"Try to find some ground that hasn't been covered."

"Almost all cool-ass rock front guys are incredibly huge assholes. It would be nice to meet one who wasn't."

"I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best."

"Onstage, I've been hit by grapefruit, beer cans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, mandies, Quaaludes, joints, panties, and a fist."

"I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet."

"I don't know Johnny Rotten, but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did."

"I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am."

"Before they shot Kennedy, I wanted to be president."

"I have no direction in life whatsoever other than to try and live, be sensible and enjoy myself."

"Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive."

Beastie Boys Quotes

Michael "Mike D" Diamond:  "Beastie Boys was the stupidest thing we could come up with at the time."

Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz: "I feel like we are honest. I fell like we are brave men."

Adam "MCA" Yauch: "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Michael Diamond: "Until we one day, hopefully, have a government that actually serves the people and listens to the people's interests as opposed to business's interest, yeah, it's going to require constant vigilance on the part of the people."

Adam  Horovitz: "When you think about it, hardcore and hip-hop aren't really that different. The attitude is the same, it's a New York attitude."

Adam Yauch: "I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world."

Michael Diamond: "Yauch was a gifted MC. It was his flow on things, rather than specific lyrics, that first blew Adam and I away."

Adam Horovitz: "It would be nice to think of ourselves as innovators. I think we're creative, but in terms of being masterminds, no. We're just making some music that we like."

Adam Yauch: "I'm pretty hopeful about the evolution of humanity in general."