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"I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan"

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Kate Moss is selling a fantasy that’s older than rock itself: the idea that the “real” life is the one that looks messier, louder, and less curated. Coming from a model whose public image has been built on hyper-managed surfaces and near-mythic cool, the rock-star daydream reads less like a career plan than a strategic confession. It humanizes her without denting the legend. She’s not rejecting fashion so much as borrowing rock’s cultural permission slip: authenticity, rebellion, late nights, the romance of the road.

The specifics do the work. “Lead singer” isn’t just “musician”; it’s front-and-center control, voice, command of a crowd. “Touring in a bus” is pointedly unglamorous compared with private jets and couture, a deliberate choice of grit over gloss. She’s reaching for a version of fame that feels earned in motion, not staged under lights. Even the bus is a prop, a shorthand for camaraderie and chaos - the myth that art happens in cramped spaces with your people.

“In my next life” is the tell. It’s wistful, but also protective: a way to claim desire without risking failure. Moss gets to flirt with reinvention while keeping her current throne intact. The subtext is that modeling, for all its access, can feel like being looked at rather than heard. Rock stardom becomes the imagined upgrade: not just seen, but listened to.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moss, Kate. (2026, January 15). I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-would-have-wanted-to-be-a-rock-star-a-lead-157341/

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Moss, Kate. "I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-would-have-wanted-to-be-a-rock-star-a-lead-157341/.

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"I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-would-have-wanted-to-be-a-rock-star-a-lead-157341/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Kate Moss (born January 16, 1974) is a Model from England.

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