Bebe Buell Quotes

People always said that I had a lot of talent and that I was a good singer.

That’s the way it was in New York City in the early Seventies, all the artists hung out together.

When you’re a successful model and then you do Playboy, and then turn around and say you’re more of a singer than a model, people roll their eyes.

I’m not gonna call myself the little engine that could because I’m 5’10 and I’m far from little – I’m the little engine that roared.

I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take.

I wasn’t lucky enough to find a Chris Stein like Debbie Harry did. I was with Todd Rundgren… He was the star, I was the decoration.

What a lucky girl I am to know so many wonderful, exciting, brilliant people.

My reputation is so overblown. I can count the number of men I’ve been with on two hands; it just seems like a lot because you recognize their names.

Parents should live for their children, not through them.

I was in an unhappy relationship with Todd Rundgren. He cheated on me and I was like, if you can go out with her, then I’ll go out with Mick Jagger!

Men want their women to be good little girls who never do anything, while they get to be pirates and do everything. And it never changes.

I’m remembered as a model who dated a rock star or 10, among them Steven Tyler, Todd Rundgren, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Page, and Rod Stewart.

I think the term ‘rock chick’ is more about an attitude than an actual look.

The best guys are the ones who were born in the ’60s. They are used to women being independent. They were brought up by mothers who were burning their bras and protesting.

Rock stars wanted to date the models, the trendsetters, the tastemakers.

I don’t think people should have an age. It’s not really important. What’s important is where you go and how you go.

When I met Groucho Marx, I had butterflies in my stomach. And I met him at a Led Zeppelin party, which is ironic.

Single mommyhood wasn’t fashionable in the mid-’70s.

Bowie would show up with one eyebrow, so we all shaved our eyebrows.

There’s a lot of people in show business who have show business parents.

The quest for love became all consuming to the point where I would give up shooting the cover of ‘Glamour’ magazine to go be with someone I was crazy about. I look back on that now and I would never let my own child do that, but I don’t regret it.

I just think that models and rock stars, and actors and actresses, all tend to flock to one another.

I believe that nothing is an accident. Everything happens for a reason. And everyone you meet and everyone you come into contact with it’s meant to happen.

I think groupies are pretty harmless.

Todd introduced me to the world I always dreamed of being a part of.

I don’t think I’m the only girl who’s not a groupie who has been called a groupie. Talented, beautiful people tend to fall in love with each other. I don’t know why that’s so unusual.

There was a difference between the rock ‘n’ roll royalty, the woman who was married to or dating a rock star and the girl that hung out and just wanted sex.

What Kim Kardashian has done with her family and brand is brilliant!

There’s only one thing that’s kind of hard about being a wife or a girlfriend of somebody in this business. It’s that really the only people that you really know are musicians.

Rod Stewart helped me to realize what I didn’t want in a boyfriend.

My roots are in music. But Eileen Ford saw my high school graduation picture, and next thing I knew I was on a plane to New York. That’s what threw a monkey wrench in it. The modeling.

Believe me, I became a vegetarian from being a teenager in the meatpacking district.

Dina Lohan’s relationship with her daughter Lindsay disturbs me. I don’t see a mother and a daughter there.

I got involved in Liv’s career because I didn’t want to throw my daughter to the wolves of the Hollywood world when she was so young.

I don’t limit myself. I think that’s what this lifestyle allows for you – freedom to sort of do more than the average housewife. The average housewife can’t pack up with her husband and go off to Europe for a tour, ’cause usually the average housewife’s husband won’t let her go.

As early as five I’d stick my leg out in a rock stance for family pictures. I was obsessed with Mick Jagger. I’d stand in front of the mirror and copy him, and I’d put a sock down my pants so I had a nice bulge. I didn’t know what that was. I just thought it was part of the uniform.

I always made sure that if I had to go and be a rock ‘n’ roll crazy person that Liv had that grounding foundation of my mother or my cousin. We tried to keep everything stable.

I don’t hate Rod Stewart. I think he’s an incredible talent, funny, darling. Just didn’t make a good boyfriend.

Friends were always trying to get me to do sexy photographs, but I was a little too uptight.

I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.

I’m not a corporate machine. I’m not Lady Gaga, I’m not Madonna, I don’t have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies. I am an organic artist.

Just about every young model and actress is dating somebody in the entertainment field, because these are the people you meet. You’re not going to very easily meet a normal person in this line of work.

I had lovely boyfriends. For your first three boyfriends to be Mick Jagger, Todd Rundgren, and David Bowie, I don’t think anyone would have a problem with that.

I’ve had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they’d dated the men they dated before they picked up their guitars, things would have been different. I’m not trying to name drop, but I’ve had this conversation with Cher, too, who has more last names than Zsa Zsa.

A lot of guys picked up an instrument because they couldn’t get girls to pay attention to them in high school. They turned to the guitar as a sure-fire aphrodisiac. And most of the time, it did the trick.

I want people to see that there are happy endings, that we do achieve our goals, that it’s never too late.

When I was a kid I was teaching the other kids how to dance the ‘Dirty Dog.’

I gave up the desire for money to be there for my daughter.

I think you get better at everything as you get older.

It’s funny. I’m 48, but I’m not – in the sense that I still feel as fresh as a 17-year-old entering into her life all over again, you know?