I Stare At Myself In The Mirror

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.

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.

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 Grenadian Manner I'd Be Nothing But A Blah. I'm Going To Need Constant Bodyguarding, Guns And Money To Join The Community There. Otherwise You Just Got A Bunch Of Fat, Old White People Dying Together, Overeating, Drinking. Not Very Attractive.

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 Town, In A Tiny Club, And Afterward Some Fans Came Back. I Thought I Had Done Good Gig And They Were Going To Tell Me That.

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.