When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
BETH DITTOStarting 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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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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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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’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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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.
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I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
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I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
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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.
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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.
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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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We weren’t idiots, but I didn’t have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn’t about not wearing makeup. It isn’t about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.
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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.
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I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
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