When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
BETH DITTOI never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I just like food too much, and I don’t want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it … I don’t want to look like Britney Spears, I just don’t want to. She’s hideous.
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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 love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that’s great and fits you.
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I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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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 was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
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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.
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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like “if it’s all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can”.
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When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
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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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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 love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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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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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
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