I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
BETH DITTOGrowing 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.
BETH DITTOAretha 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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I’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
BETH DITTOI’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
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Even talking, I’m super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There’s no way I can fight it.
BETH DITTOEven talking, I’m super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There’s no way I can fight it.
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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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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTOA beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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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.
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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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Even if you’re only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up’s on and their eyes are popping – just ask Amy Winehouse!
BETH DITTOEven if you’re only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up’s on and their eyes are popping – just ask Amy Winehouse!
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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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If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
BETH DITTOIf you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
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Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that “even lesbians can have babies these days.”
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Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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I’ve had people ask me in interviews what it’s like to have money, but that’s not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
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I support love any healthy way you can get it.
BETH DITTOI support love any healthy way you can get it.
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