Pete Burns Quotes

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.

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.

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.

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn’t respond well to anti-depressants.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I hope when I’m 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn’t recognise me.

What I’m trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It’s narcissism.

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.

I don’t wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can’t really see it happening.

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.

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.

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

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.

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.

How did I write ‘Spin Me?’ I listened to Luther Vandross’s ‘I Wanted Your Love.’

I’m not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visual way. And I never have come unravelled.

I’m not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

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.

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.

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

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.

I was brought up with an incredible amount of freedom and creativity.

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.

I’m not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress – gender is separated by fabric.

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.

What I’m trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It’s narcissism.

I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.

You shouldn’t inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.

I hope when I’m 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn’t recognise me.