twenty-seven years and one million words
I've come across this. Sounds like things have been a bit chaotic since I left. Of course, they were chaotic for me while I was there and doing the long distance thing.
For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little -- a movie song here or a TV ad there.
—Iggy Pop