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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.

Beth Ditto

As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
BETH DITTO

Football Running Thanksgiving
I’m on a diet. It’s very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It’s working out – I’ve gained fifteen pounds!
BETH DITTO

Dog Music Out Work
When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
BETH DITTO

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

Brain Exercise Therapist
I’m naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn’t get through at least a pencil a month.
BETH DITTO

Blonde Eyebrows Hair
A weird thing about Gossip that I’ve always said: “If I weren’t in this band, I would never listen to it.” But I would go see it. It’s a band you would go see that you don’t necessarily listen to.
BETH DITTO

Band Gossip Things Weird
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
I said to my teacher, ‘I can’t be a singer because I’m not pretty enough, and I’m fat.’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.’ That changed my life forever!
BETH DITTO

Forever Singer Teacher
I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
BETH DITTO

Green Hair Purple
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.
BETH DITTO

People Think Thinking
I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
BETH DITTO

Gay Needs Thinking
We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
BETH DITTO

Certain Ideas Shape
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTO

Beautiful House Plant
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
BETH DITTO

Bitter Charming Shame
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
I mean, if I was living to please people, I’d have never been in a band at all. I wouldn’t have anything awesome around. I’d just be bored.
BETH DITTO

Bored Mean People

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