Iggy Pop Quotes

When I first started playing metal, lyrically, I sort of related a little bit more to the punk and hardcore scenes, where there was a lot more veganism and straight-edge people and people taking a stance for causes that they believe in.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person.

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

When I went to D.C., I thought I would have an incredible platform to help animals. But I realized very quickly that there were huge limits to what I could do.

I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.

The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.

The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

I love working with PETA.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

I've become an animal rights activist.

I appreciate people trying to stand up for animals.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.

I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too.

We should all love animals.