I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
BETH DITTOI 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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 work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
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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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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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Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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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 support love any healthy way you can get it.
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I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It’s been an amazing learning curve and experience.
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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 really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn’t lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.
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I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that’s great and fits you.
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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
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Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
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