Pete Burns Quotes

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

American newspapers disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.

I have a professional life, and so does the media. Let's face it: how can they come up with new gossip every day? So, they have to make stuff up about someone's personal life, which is fine.

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

The paparazzi don't care about me.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

TMZ is so disgusting.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.

Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.