Iggy Pop Quotes

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

Never allow a stigma or the popular thing to define you.

I just worry about myself. I'm just gonna be me and do me. If people appreciate it, cool. If not, I'm gonna still be me.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.

I'm just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won't.

I can only be me!