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Beth Ditto

I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
BETH DITTO

Body Evolution People
This is how I feel about everything that’s out of your control: once you make a record, it’s not yours anymore. There’s nothing you can do. It’s the way I feel about political movements – both of those things grow on their own.
BETH DITTO

Grow Movement Political
I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say no to other people with a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience People Rejection
I’m constantly thinking about what I’ll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don’t know, because it’s not in your hands, you don’t make the decision.
BETH DITTO

Keys Mean Thinking
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.
BETH DITTO

Body Person Voice
With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress – a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
BETH DITTO

Curves Eye Lovely
The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.
BETH DITTO

Artist Talking Thinking
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.
BETH DITTO

Home Nice Thinking
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.
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School Talking Teacher
I grew up with the motto of “they can’t kill you and eat you,” and I still think that’s right. You sure as hell can’t! When it comes to speaking about my body makes other people uncomfortable but it doesn’t make me uncomfortable.
BETH DITTO

Baby Sexy Thinking
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.
BETH DITTO

People Think Thinking
High school wasn’t so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
BETH DITTO

Kids Rich School
I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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Bladder Surgery
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.
BETH DITTO

Girl Growing Responsibility Up
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It’s proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
BETH DITTO

Artist Oregon Perfect
I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that’s great and fits you.
BETH DITTO

Fit Interesting Love

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