18 Pete Burns Quotes for You to Enjoy

Pete Burns

English Musician

Born: Aug 5, 1959

Died: Oct 23, 2016

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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. Pete Burns

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

Problems Guess Way Visual Never Come Non-Existent Because Behavioural Manifested

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. Pete Burns

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

Achieve Narcissism Own My Own Surgery Trying Personal Personal Satisfaction Satisfaction

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. Pete Burns

Music God Thank God Too Unless Gigs Promote Record Record Company Well Because Greatest Greatest Hits Walked Thank Hits Want Not Interested Interested Them Then Really Company Away

I've never had my heart broken. Pete Burns

Broken Heart Never Had Heart Broken

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be. Pete Burns

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. Pete Burns

Speak Husband Year Guess Restaurant Never He Obsessed Crushes Look Him Because Michael Going Where Apart Worked Nearly Kept

I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral, and my family didn't watch TV. I wasn't exposed to people with icon status. David Bowie popped up, but I had already shaved my eyebrows off by the time I saw his. Pete Burns

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From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child. Pete Burns

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. Pete Burns

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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. Pete Burns

Waiting Face Husband Dreadful Bored Had Over Look Got Michael Get Did Done Tattoo Which While Them

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

Depression Me Severe Respond Well Hit

There's not a part of me, apart from the soles of my feet, which has not had work done. Pete Burns

Work Me Had Part Feet Done Which Apart

You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up. Pete Burns

You Yourself Minutes Up Inflict Public Fifteen Fifteen Minutes Your

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