Top 50 Bebe Buell Quotes

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

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

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

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!

I was from a generation that didn’t think that far into the future. We thought opportunities would always exist, that we would be fifteen forever.

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

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.

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.

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.

You can’t mix two heavy scents or it’s overwhelming – make sure the other is light and delicious.

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.

I realized that there is no fairy tale.

I was never the kind of girl that chased anybody.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I know every Bowie song backward.

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

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.

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

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.

Parents should live for their children, not through them.

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’m on a perpetual quest for air-conditioning.

I think groupies are pretty harmless.

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

I was always included – I mean, I loved being downtown at Max’s Kansas City and CBGB’s and all that, but you could also always take me uptown.

The whole British invasion sort of changed my life. It made me want to move to New York.

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

My daughter is a very, very down-to-earth person.

When you talk about a man like David Bowie, you have to go in there with dignity.

Men from my generation are chauvinist pigs!

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 was dangerous and damn good-looking.

I think everybody’s got a little Elvis in them.

I guess I was pretty hot.

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.

When Liv had Milo, that’s when it really came full circle to me. I am so proud of her. We are both single mothers but in different eras.

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.

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.

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

I think everybody’s a groupie for something. I mean, women used to stand on seaports and wait for the guys to come in on ships. They were ship groupies.

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