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I've never had my heart broken.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Broken
Heart Broken
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On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Reflection
Abysmal
Dreadful
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Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Lettuce
Vegetarianism
Want
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I hope when I'm 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn't recognise me.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Heaven
Recognise
God Hope Me
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You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Fifteen
Minutes
Public
Fifteen Minutes
Inflict
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How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Luther
Love Me Your
Listened
Spin
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I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Fabric
Gender
Separated
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In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Depression
Severe
Hit
Respond
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I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Concentrating
Reflect
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I live a quiet daytime life. I walk everywhere. I lie down. I wash socks. I fry an egg.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Daytime
Quiet
Everywhere
Egg
Lie
Fry
Walk
Socks
Wash
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Wanna
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What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Narcissism
Personal Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Surgery
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If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Car
Appearance
Years
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The amount of surgeries I've had are absolutely minimal compared to the reconstructive surgeries I've had. Probably 300.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Compared
Minimal
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I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Clock
Imagery
Items
Memorabilia
Trash
Collect
Elvis
Inspires
Tasteful
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Deluded
Fall
Norm
Mine
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I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Credit
Peculiar
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Visual
Behavioural
Manifested
Non-Existent
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Break
Sacred
Naturally
Commercial
Institution
Predators
Relationships
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Forever
Sanity
Surreal
Young
Possibly
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Blunt
Refuse
Character Me People
Where Character Me
Learnt
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Bored
Husband
Tattoo
Waiting
Michael
Dreadful
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Drag
One Thing
Tacky
Me Dead Never
Catch
Dead
Queen
Pair
Practical
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The idea of travelling all over the world singing the same songs sounds like hell. How people like Tina Turner still do it with enthusiasm is beyond me.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Enthusiasm
Singing
Turner
Beyond
Sounds
Tina
Tina Turner
Travelling
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Looks
Ready
Strange
Mentally
Anybody
Bit
Conclusions
Jump
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Firsts
Musician
Pops
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Botox
Buying
Always Face People
Changing
Homes
Regular
Sofa
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Nearly
Crushes
Michael
Restaurant
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Gigs
Not Interested
Thank God
God Music Thank God
Greatest Hits
Promote
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Expected
Revolving
Staying
Throwing
Up And Down
Anchor
Escalator
Surely
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Cracked
Dying
Journalist
Nurse
Dressed
Lung
Realise
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Bowie
Exposed
Eyebrows
Posters
Village
Tv
David
By The Time
Watch
Either
Family Time People
Small
Saw
Icon
Shaved
Status
Walls
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Eyebrows
Jennifer
Pluck
Tea
Myself Always Me
Accept
Wanna
Camp
Cup
Myself Look Me
Fully
Queen
Jennifer Lopez
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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.
Pete Burns / Singer-Songwriter
Dying
Lovely
Remember
Thinking
Tubes
Velvet
Wanted
Bath
Feeling
Hospital
Wired
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Last Time
No Idea
Pollution
Touched
Time Mind Me
Enter
Realise
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Berlin
Silent
Marlene
Silent Movie
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