What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism. Pete Burns More Quotes by Pete Burns More Quotes From Pete Burns Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce? Pete Burns lettucevegetarianismwant If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance Pete Burns carappearanceyears Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do. Pete Burns popsmusicianfirsts 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 doorsayingdownmarriage 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 musicthank-godgodwant 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 myselfmeteapeople I've never had my heart broken. Pete Burns heart-brokenneverbrokenheart I hope when I'm 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn't recognise me. Pete Burns mehopegodheaven The amount of surgeries I've had are absolutely minimal compared to the reconstructive surgeries I've had. Probably 300. Pete Burns minimalhadabsolutelyamount 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. Pete Burns neverbestlookmatter 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. Pete Burns feelingyourememberthinking I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening. Pete Burns seelookknowyou 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 pictureyoumotherhouse I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric. Pete Burns dressgendergirltrying 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 restaurantlookhusbandspeak 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 villagefamilytimepeople 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. Pete Burns thinkproblempeoplefall 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 facemefriendsmother I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie. Pete Burns viewmarriagegaymen 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 memindtimepeople
