I go on the internet about once a month and just peek. I saw some newspaper in Britain had done a survey and I won Most Irritating Person or something. Yeah, and one comment was, ‘Aw, leave him alone, I think it’s nice he gets a bit of money in his old age,’ which I agree with. Most of the records other people were making when I made mine were just commercials masquerading as music. It’s all shit! I never did that, and when I did an ad, I called it an ad, and I don’t see anything wrong with doing it. If within the secret reservoir of the mass psyche this causes one to a million people to react differently to me or my music, fine. I did the work. I was really, really well paid.
Iggy Pop

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