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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.

Beth Ditto

I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
BETH DITTO

Fast Food Forever Jobs
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.
BETH DITTO

BMW Class People
If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
BETH DITTO

Brain Exercise Therapist
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music.
BETH DITTO

Knowing Listening Play
Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
BETH DITTO

Existence Mundane People
I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
BETH DITTO

Mature More Strong
I’m a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I’m very politically correct, although I do question what’s PC and what’s not – I don’t just accept what I’m told.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Feels Feminist
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
BETH DITTO

Country Love Sad Song
Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
BETH DITTO

Distance Letting Go Mean
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.
BETH DITTO

Karma Mean Vengeance
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.
BETH DITTO

Bags Character Tools
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.
BETH DITTO

Childhood Sick Trying
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTO

Beautiful House Plant
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 DITTO

Christian Mom Teenage
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.
BETH DITTO

Careers Mama Weight
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.
BETH DITTO

College House Makeup

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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