I hadn't tried heroin because I've always been kind of scared of it, and then one day a friend of mine was in town from L.A. I would have food delivered and furniture delivered, and I charged about ten grand on the card and no one did anything for six months. I had gotten a hold of my dad's credit card when I was fourteen, and I started buying all this stuff.
Sleuth says that you pretended to have a heroin habit so you could go to rehab to get away from your parents.īIJOU: Okay, here's what happened. I was eighteen.īRUCE: Did David Blaine also get "Daddy" tattooed on his butt?īIJOU: He got some famous magician with a hat and a cane.īIJOU: We met at Bowery Bar when I was fourteen.īRUCE: You came to New York when you were fourteen. I went and got it with my friend David Blaine. Has anyone articulated it for you in the press?īRUCE: The refrain in your new song is: "He touched me wrong." How much more blatant can you get?īIJOU: I really want his balls busted, but I also want to be able to say, "It's just a song."īRUCE: In Celebrity Sleuth it says you have a "Daddy" tattoo on your butt, and there's a picture of it.īRUCE: It's funny how you can know a person and not know they have "Daddy" tattooed on their butt.īIJOU: That was during a time when I was a pretty sick puppy. You're talking about stuff in your music that's pretty heavy. They can interpret it themselves.īRUCE: There seemed to be some improprieties going on. I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. And we had to steal food.īRUCE: I read that your dad was a real grifter.īIJOU: At one point, he bought a drugstore so he wouldn't have to cop on the street anymore.īRUCE: And before he became famous he was a mailman, but he was too lazy to deliver the mail so he'd just throw it away.īRUCE: Tell me about the new song you wrote - the one you were singing in the car on the way back from lunch.īIJOU: The one about my dad? It sort of speaks for itself. Me and my mom ended up sleeping on the street.īRUCE: You weren't sleeping on the street!īIJOU: Yeah, we slept on the street a couple of nights, in doorways. My dad went to jail at the time, and no one would give my mom money.īRUCE: But she had lots of rich, celebrity friends.ī IJOU: My parents fucked so many people over that no one wanted to talk to either of them. And then your father tried to burn down his own house. īRUCE: It says in the book that Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall were baby-sitting you once when your parents were going through heroin withdrawal, and Mick and Jerry wouldn't give you back to them because they were too fucked up. You must carry some anger about that, or did you just let it all go?īRUCE: Does it freak you out that everybody knows all these details? The book's out of print, by the way.īIJOU: At the time it was huge, when it came out in '87.īIJOU: The book's a bunch of lies, that's what my sister says.īIJOU: Yeah. Just because the system is rigged against you doesn't mean you can't be a vile, oppressive piece of shit individual.īRUCE: Now you were born on April Fool's Day, and in Papa John it says that your mother was on heroin when she was pregnant with you, and that you were born premature and almost died.īRUCE: That's not a very nice way to come into the world. She then bit the man next to me because he stopped her from doing so. When I was heavily pregnant, a woman on the train tried to hit me because she felt that she deserved my seat more than me. That girl never apologized and she even claimed it was his own fault for being a "F**". When we were 14 my best friend was outed as gay by a girl in our class, his parents kicked him out because they found out that he was homosexual due to her outing him & to this day won't have anything to do with him. He lost the eye, his life ended up in shambles because he couldn't work anymore & yet he still took her back and didn't press charges. One of my earliest memories is of my Grandmother driving our neighbour to hospital with half his eye hanging out because his girlfriend attacked him right after he got a cornea transplant. Stuff like this is why I don't believe the current narrative being pushed that women are delicate little flowers & perpetual victims to oppressive, violent penis bearers who are foaming at the mouth, desperate to hurt us. That's such a horrible way to treat a person.
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