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.
BETH DITTOI was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
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I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn’t a lot of academic language being thrown around my house.
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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
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When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?
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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
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I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
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I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter – I just didn’t identify as a songwriter at all.
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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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I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
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I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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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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I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
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I’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
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