Iggy Pop Quotes

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

Yesterday is just a memory.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

The best years are behind me.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

It is always nice to reflect on how one started.

Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.

I don't look back and regret anything.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

We all have appointments with the past.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made