What did you take away from teaming up with Iggy Pop?

My old man asked me, “Who is Iggy Pop?” I said, Dad, I’ve been doing this a long time and with a lot of people. I’ve stood at the edge many times. And when you take that risk, a lot of people fall off and they perish. A lot of people don’t have the sand to even get close to the edge. And there will be one person that will stand on the edge the whole time, with their toes over the edge and their heels on the ground, and they will not fall but they will see it all. And that’s Iggy.

Being with Iggy, it recharged the battery. I’ve been chasing the brake lights and dust of something since I was little, and I got close a bunch of times, but at the Royal Albert Hall I touched the bumper, you know what I mean?

It was something I had been thinking about since I was 13, and it got done right in my opinion, and I gave it all I had and then it’s over. And who are you now and what do you do? It took me a second to know anything. Or I could have said, I don’t need to do anything else.

Obviously you did need to. There’s a line in “Hideaway”: You’ve got an “addiction to friction.”

That addiction to friction — what’s the synonym for that? Collaboration, sex, the universe. The universe is made out of collision. If everything was perfect and parallel, no one would touch and it wouldn’t matter. It’s in the collision that sparks ignite the fire that’s worth standing next to. Some people call it looking for trouble, but I disagree with that. I’m looking for action, you know?