Via “Arthur Goldhammer”:http://artgoldhammer.blogspot.com/2010/07/iggy-pop-on-tocqueville.html, “this”:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/186756
bq. [Iggy] Pop admits he’s tired of writing about his own personal experiences and, after basing his last solo album on Michel Houellebecq’s novel The Possibility of an Island, his plans are equally epic for the next record. “I’ve said everything about myself that I care to say in life,” Pop says. “Right now, I’m reading _Democracy in America_ by Alexis de Tocqueville. It’s pretty heavy what he says about America. It could be an album.”