it was an e-mail from iggy pop's people to 0.0 production. iggy pop, a hero of mine since 1969. over the years hoping, hoping, hoping that my hero would agree to be on the show. i got this response. "iggy is working on a film outside the u.s. on those dates and he says he has not reach ha reached puke point for media this year. he's seen anthony's show and says anthony's not a dick." there's hope. iggy thinks i'm not a dick. it was the best thing anyone said at any time in my life and it only got better. so you've been here how many years now? >> 15 years. >> 15 years? you're a floridian. >> yeah. >> when i was young, this man was a role model. an ideal. a roadmap for bad behavior. his music it turned out was the soundtrack for most of my life. still is. james osterburg, known still as iggy pop. you grew up in michigan. you lived in new york for a long period of time. >> i went from michigan to london. i went to london to hollywood. which was rough. hollywood to berlin which was great. back to london. and then new york from '79 to '99. >> was it a conceivable option at any point

james osterburg of muskegon, michigan, known still all over the world as iggy pop. went from london to hollywood, which was rough. hollywood to berlin, which was great. back to london. and new york from '79 to '99. >> was it a conceivable option at any point, i can live in florida? >> it wasn't for me. i was hustling. hustling in a big city. it just kind of happened by chance. i had a shady friend who owned a condo here, and thought, well, this is a nice, little trashy hang. you could just pull up to the beach any time you wanted and look out and see the end of complications. and anybody could do that and it was safe and free. and i thought, that's a -- this is beautiful. ♪ >> so we're eating healthy today? >> yeah. >> what do you like here? >> i wouldn't have thought back then in my dorm room that all those years later i'd be eating healthy with iggy pop. barbecue shrimp for the godfather of punk. i get wild and crazy with some roast pork. a little white wine, our only tilt toward the debauches of previous lives. i well remember the first stooges album coming out,

. >> you've done collaborations with rem, you've recently sang with debbie harry, you sang with iggy pop. is there anyone alive or dead that you wish you could sing with? >> uh, david bowie. >> david bowie, why? >> yeah, i love his voice. i just love his voice and he also... >> shall we ask him right now on camera to join you? >> david! >> call her... call kate! >> call, david! >> would you mind playing a little something for us from your new album? >> alright, well a little snippet. >> okay a little snippet, we'll take that. now this guitar back here, is this your baby? is this your favorite one? >> yes, this is a gibson hummingbird quilt. and isn't it beautiful? >> it is beautiful. how long have you been playing on this guitar? >> um, just about a year and a half. um, i played, uh with the b-52s, i played an electric guitar and i played on 52 girls and hero worship. and so i've just uh tried to get, it was hard breaking back into playing guitar because you know you've got to get your callouses going, and uh...(strums and sings mister sister). it's the beginning of mr. sister. >> people

iggy pop. the stones.er. >> he was a junkie before he was a writer. >> as so many of us were. >> a place to think of yourself as a writer you would come here and somehow working within a romantic tradition. >> yes. >> burroughs said right up front, writer to me lounged around in a smoking jacket or a caftan and smoking littered with sleeping boys. >> yes. >> or girls. >> to what extent did that world exist and to what extent was that world created by the people that showed up with that expectation? >> since bill departed, iep, dear, wonderful, marvelous man, he's gone, it's tame now. >> it is tame. >> well, he was -- >> genteel now. >> he was the very opposite of genteel. he was an outlaw of every society. >> my husband knew him very well and he was saying that i cured him of being a drug addict. i said how? he said, i turned him into an alcoholic. >> who smokes hashish at this table? please raise your hand. >> is the camera on? >> put your hand up, bianca. ♪ we thought we'd be ready. but demand for our co