Quotes from Bebe Buell

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

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

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.

It's painful when you see your boyfriend flirting with some girl or you know he's been with somebody on the road.

Liv's dad comes to Portland to visit. He flies up on his little plane and we spoil him and feed him and give him a dose of real life. We take his cellphone and hide it from him.

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

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.

It's, 'Honey, where's the peacock outfit? What about my leather pants?' You have to swat them clean with a brush. And when the makeup artist passed out, I had to finish. That's why Todd would have two different kinds of eye makeup on.

I used to go to tea at the St. Regis with Dali. I was standing there and Mr. Dali walked over to me and asked if I would like to have tea with him and Truman Capote. Normally if a person would come up to you in a magazine store and ask you to have tea, you'd run, wouldn't you? But I sort of had a feeling that this was legitimate.

I know every Bowie song backward.

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

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.

Men from my generation are chauvinist pigs!

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

I was never the kind of girl that chased anybody.

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 realized that there is no fairy tale.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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