Pete Burns Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Pete Burns Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.
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I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn’t speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him.
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You’d never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for another thing, it’s just like a tacky drag queen.
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In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn’t respond well to anti-depressants.
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Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, ‘This is where I’m staying. I’ve made my choice, and this is all I want because I’ve been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.’ That’s what I expected.
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If people don’t think I can fall into what the norm is, that’s their problem and not mine. I’m not the norm; I’m not deluded.
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Over the years, I’ve had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That’s where I learnt the blunt side of my character.
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I had piercings all over my face, which did look dreadful, but I got them done while waiting for my husband Michael to get a tattoo. I was bored.
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You’d never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for another thing, it’s just like a tacky drag queen.
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10
I hope when I’m 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn’t recognise me.
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11
What I’m trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It’s narcissism.
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12
What a lot of people don’t realise about me is that I have no idea what’s going on in the media. I don’t pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don’t enter into it at all on any level.
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I don’t wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can’t really see it happening.
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14
I have regular peels and Botox. It’s something I’ll always do. People redecorate their homes every few years, and I see this as no different. Changing my face is like buying a new sofa.
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It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, ‘If only you’d take these tubes out, it feels so nice.’ It felt so – it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.
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On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.
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I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.
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I had piercings all over my face, which did look dreadful, but I got them done while waiting for my husband Michael to get a tattoo. I was bored.
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It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, ‘If only you’d take these tubes out, it feels so nice.’ It felt so – it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.
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How did I write ‘Spin Me?’ I listened to Luther Vandross’s ‘I Wanted Your Love.’
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21
I’m not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.
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22
My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visual way. And I never have come unravelled.
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I’m not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.
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24
I’m not a camp, throwaway queen; I’m not in Neverland. I’m not Jennifer Lopez with three people to pluck my eyebrows. I’ve made myself what I want to be – not everybody’s cup of tea. And people wanna have a look at me. I fully accept that. People have always wanted to have a look at me.
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I have regular peels and Botox. It’s something I’ll always do. People redecorate their homes every few years, and I see this as no different. Changing my face is like buying a new sofa.
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On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.
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I’m not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn’t do too well because the record company wouldn’t promote it.
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28
I was brought up with an incredible amount of freedom and creativity.
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Over the years, I’ve had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That’s where I learnt the blunt side of my character.
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30
I’m not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress – gender is separated by fabric.
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31
It’s not a matter of vanity; it’s a matter of sanity. I’ll never look forever young, but I’ll look as best as I possibly can; I’ll look surreal.
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What I’m trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It’s narcissism.
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33
I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.
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34
You shouldn’t inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.
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I hope when I’m 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn’t recognise me.
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