Biografie

Computer animators on Peter Jackson's Der Herr der Ringe: Die Gefährten (2001) used his movement and body as a basis for the character Gollum.

Now famous for his crazed behavior in the late '60s and '70s, much of Iggy's craziness was fueled by his addiction to heroin. Iggy would often mutilate himself, roll around in peanut butter or broken glass, throw himself offstage (and once down a flight of stairs), bend his body like a pretzel, hump his amps, go naked, and insult the audience. Offstage, he did little else other shoot heroin and have promiscuous sex. In the late '70s, he quit heroin to save his own life and lost interest in sleeping around.

In the 1970s, David Bowie played keyboard on his first solo tour. He was an unannounced guest player.

Iggy plays guitar left-handed.

The character "Funboy" in the original The Crow - Die Krähe (1994) was modeled after him, and he was supposed to be cast as "Funboy", but scheduling prohibited him from being in the movie. He instead appeared as "Curve" in its sequel, The Crow: Die Rache der Krähe (1996).

[on modern music] The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

[in 1977] Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

[on his band The Stooges] That band could kill any band at the time and frankly can just kill any bands that built on this work since...just eat any of those poodles.

[on Canadian Television in 1977] I don't know Johnny Rotten [John Lydon], but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.

[when asked by Dinah Shore what influenced his music] The industrialism in Detroit...what I heard walking around...boom boom bah - 10 cars...boom boom bah - 20 cars...I get a lot of my influence from the electric shaver...