Iggy Pop didn't want to accept Lifetime Achievement Grammy at first: 'I don't want to talk to them'

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Iggy Pop said that Grammy organizers citing his influence on breakout artists such as Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish was instrumental in getting him to accept a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.The Lust For Life artist, 75, opened up to the outlet Classic Rock about why he was initially reluctant to accept the honor from the Recording Academy.'The Grammys kept wanting to talk to me on the phone,' he said, 'and I kept telling my manager, "I don't want to talk to them.

I hate those people. They want me to be an exhibit in their museum or something.''' The latest: Iggy Pop, 75, said that Grammy organizers citing his influence on breakout artists such as Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish was instrumental in getting him to accept a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.

He was pictured at the 2020 Grammys in LAThe punk music icon continued: 'Then when I finally spoke to the lady from the Grammys a couple of months later she said: "We're giving you the Lifetime Achievement.

Without you, there's no Lil Nas X and there's no Billie Eilish."'According to her, "You're a direct link to the artists that are at the top of our awards list this year." So that's what one person had to say, and I'll take that for what it's worth.' The Passenger vocalist, whose real name is James Osterberg Jr., opened up to People in January of 2020 about the process in which he accepted the honors from the musical establishment.'I said, "I'm not talking to them!"' he said. 'It's been, what?