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Basically, I’m A Musical Vocalist, But I Do Voiceover Stuff As A Sideline, Like Plumbing Or Something.

Well, After Zombie Birdhouse Came Out, I Toured Behind It In The Fall Of 1982, Into The Spring, And In The Summer In The Far East. At That Time, I Found My Work Self-referential; It Was Getting To Be Rock Songs About A Rock Singer Who Lived A Rock Life On The Rock Road, And I Was Starting To Wonder What I Would Be Like To Rent My Own Apartment, What It Would Be Like To Have A Checkbook.

Dmt Was A Gaseous Wax That You Could Smoke That Gave You A 20-minute Psychedelic High. You'd Inhale It. And Then When You'd Exhale—poof, You'd Be High. I Saw Buddha, Man. I Know That Sounds Like No Big Deal. But I Saw A Gigantic Holographic Buddha — Correct In Every Way! Buddhas Can Be Very Intricate — These Drawings That You See In Books. Thousands Of Details Were Included In This Buddha. Where Did They Come From? I Didn't Make Them Up. I Can't Even Draw, You Know? I Could Barely Spell Cat, You Know? And There It Was. And I Thought, Wow — The Power Of The Mind, You Know?

When Punk Began To Be A Genre, People Were Going To Go Out And Try To Mine It. Some Of The Better Groups, Like The Ramones And The Sex Pistols, Were Very Artificial.

I Became Iggy Because I Had A Sadistic Boss At A Record Store. I'd Been In A Band Called The Iguanas. And When This Boss Wanted To Embarrass And Demean Me, He'd Say, 'iggy, Get Me A Coffee, Light.'