I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
BETH DITTOI never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don’t think it’ll happen – and that’s fine. It’s kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
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I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing – just as my mom’s had before me, and her mom’s had before her.
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We all seek approval, and our mother’s seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom’s blessing or not.
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I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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A weird thing about Gossip that I’ve always said: “If I weren’t in this band, I would never listen to it.” But I would go see it. It’s a band you would go see that you don’t necessarily listen to.
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I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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I’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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You’re talking about a major label, we’re talking about serious business; you’re not an artist anymore, you’re a business, you have to work in terms of product, you have to release a product, and I don’t really think that way at all.
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I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
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To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.
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