“Get up in the morning on the fourth floor of a cold-water building and take a sponge bath. Cut a little brown bread and cheese — I had a knife, one knife — and eat. Then walk all over the city, which hadn’t changed since 1910: organ grinders who still had monkeys; quality transvestite shows. A different world. By evening, I’d go have dinner with the Bowies, see a film or watch Starsky and Hutch — that was our big thing, me and Bowie. If there wasn’t enough to do, I knew some bad people, and I’d get stoned or drunk. Sometimes I’d do the bad stuff with the Bowies and the good stuff with the bad people.”

Iggy Pop, Blender, September 2003