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 DITTOI’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I support love any healthy way you can get it.
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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 wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
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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’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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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 have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
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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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When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
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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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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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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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I’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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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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ABBA was a direct influence on me.
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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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I hate to do what I’m told, that’s why I’m not good at 9-to-5s.
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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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I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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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.
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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.
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Products are a must – full stop. I’m sorry to say it, but that bob won’t look so sleek on its own – you need a little help. It doesn’t have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
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To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.
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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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