twenty-seven years and one million words
They say you bungled the American empire, Mr Obama; I say good riddance, let the US be a country again. An exceptional country instead of an all-too-typical empire.
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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