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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.

Iggy Pop

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Iggy Pop
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 21
Actor
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Muskegon
Michigan
James Newell Osterberg
James Newell Osterberg Jr.
James Osterberg
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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I don't think I'm lucky I think I have a tough constitution. That's a lot of it. And I've been wise enough to listen to other people. I was unconsciously cultivating as many straight friends as I could.
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I'm not ashamed to dress like a woman because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
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Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.
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