There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
BETH DITTOI love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what’s really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.
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I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
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I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
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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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Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that’s what stuck to me; it’s like, you really are a factory. You don’t do things to make them, on your own time.
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.
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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
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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 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 passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for 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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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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