Twiggy Biography

On herself:

“It’s not what you’d call a figure, is it?” [Referring to her own thin frame]

“I’m lumbered with the name Twiggy really. There was a point a few years back when I thought I’d stop using it and be Lesley Lawson. But every time I was written about, it would be ‘Lesley Lawson, otherwise known as Twiggy’. So my husband quite rightly told me to stop worrying about it.”

"I'm not as skinny as I used to be, thank God. I'd look very strange if I was. I'm slim. I eat healthily because that's the way I prefer to eat and I'm sure it helps keep the weight off."

"I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons."

On her music/musical tastes:

“I didn’t really know about Marilyn Manson – it’s not my sort of music, not exactly the sort of thing I would curl up and listen to!”

“The Twiggy-Twiggy record! I met Twiggy Ramirez, this rather strange looking creature – very skinny and all in black leather. Once you got past the image, he was actually a really nice guy.” [Referring to her collaboration with Ramirez on the ‘Dead Man On Campus’ (1998) soundtrack.]

“I really remember very, very little of this one – probably just as well! We did this record just after I had been ‘discovered’. We were inundated with offers from people saying ‘do this’, ‘do that’. To be honest, it was probably a bit of a mistake because I didn’t know what I was doing. It was interesting to see that I did that one early. I didn’t really start singing again until we did ‘The Boy Friend’.” [Commenting on her album ‘Beautiful Dreams’ (1967)]

“I do remember though that Ken was present throughout the recording of the album.” [Speaking of the soundtrack for Ken Russell’s film ‘The Boy Friend’ (1971)]

“This was one of my favourite songs from ‘The Boy friend’ score, it’s such a sweet song. If I remember right, the session was in London and to be quite honest, I was nervous. I had this big film coming up and of course, I had never been in a film, it was all extremely exciting.” [Referring to ‘A Room in Bloomsbury’ (1971), with Christopher Gable]