I’m on a diet. It’s very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It’s working out – I’ve gained fifteen pounds!
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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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.
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I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
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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 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 mean, if I was living to please people, I’d have never been in a band at all. I wouldn’t have anything awesome around. I’d just be bored.
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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 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 few years back, when my style was “punk grandma”, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more “1980s substitute teacher gone wild.”
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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.
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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’m naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn’t get through at least a pencil a month.
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ABBA was a direct influence on me.
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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’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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