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Just because.Being heavily tattooed, I get asked a lot by the un-inked why I do it. Here are some of the explanations I give. Some I feel all the time, some I feel about once every three months. And some are just outright lies. The reason I’m tattooed is: because it looks cool because its my autobiography on my skin because it connects me to my inner primal Goddess and the Old Ways because you can whip ‘em out at parties and show off because I always preferred my ice cream with 100’s and 1000’s on it because, like Cher, I too am a rock n roll woman who has lived because it makes me feel sexy because I’m an outsider, a queer, and I hate my mum and I refuse to tidy up my bedroom and do my homework because its my drug of choice because when the inevitable happens and due to public demand I become a stripper it will be a profitable and memorable gimmick because I feel permanently and beautifully decorated and bejewelled because I am the baddest mother fucker who ever walked this haberdashery department because its a way to reinvent your self over and over again because I’ve always wanted to be a wrestler rather than a writer because no one can take them away from me because despite my short hair and nondescript clothes I still have the heart of a Goth because art is so important to my life, I must have it close by at all times because I’m compensating for feeling insecure about the size of my penis because its for life, not just for Xmas because my headless corpse will always be easily identifiable because I always wanted to be Querelle of Brest , Shirley McClaine in Sweet Charity, The Fonz and Lemmy from Motorhead all rolled into one because it works as bait to pull the boys (and I’ve yet to meet one who doesn’t love them) because I’m scared of dying because I love Rock ‘n’ Roll (so put another dime in the juke box baby) because every time I fall in love I want to write his name on my skin because every time my heart is broken I want a coloured scar because it says more about you than cash ever can because I really want to fuck Henry Rollins till he screams because it feels like dignity because sometimes I’ve just got to be a bad, bad boy because its a reward to my self for getting through the day because its my drug of choice because I’m nearly 45 and can do what the fuck I like because I’ve got one life to live ...and just because it feels kind of right.
That’s why I have tattoos.
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