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You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

Beth Ditto

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

Existence Mundane People
When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that’s made for her, it drives me mad.
BETH DITTO

Ideas Mad Thinking
I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
BETH DITTO

Games Long Video
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?
BETH DITTO

Important People Thinking
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 DITTO

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

Fast Food Forever Jobs
I’m 90% performer, 10% musician. I’ve always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
BETH DITTO

Band Gossip Musician
I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
BETH DITTO

Bladder Surgery
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.
BETH DITTO

House Machine Mom
I’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
BETH DITTO

Book Friendship Fun
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!
BETH DITTO

Baptists Joy Overcoming
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTO

Beautiful House Plant
I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
BETH DITTO

Body Evolution People
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
Get a Job’ is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
BETH DITTO

Jobs Kids Party
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.
BETH DITTO

School Talking Teacher

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

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You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

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