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.”
BETH DITTOYou’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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn’t understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
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If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
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I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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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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When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand’s flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
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I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It’s been an amazing learning curve and experience.
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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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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 don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
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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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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
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When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so’s head, it’s tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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