My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage.
BETH DITTOI’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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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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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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music.
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There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
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I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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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 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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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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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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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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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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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is 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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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there’s a great big world to explore out there.
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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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