Iggy Pop Quotes

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

I function because I am on drugs.

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.