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The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.

Beth Ditto

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
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
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
The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.
BETH DITTO

Artist Talking Thinking
There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
BETH DITTO

Band Flags Rainbow
I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like “if it’s all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can”.
BETH DITTO

Challenges Favorites Inspiration Things
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.
BETH DITTO

Cutting Hair Maintenance
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
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 can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
BETH DITTO

House People Thinking
Because I didn’t have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn’t hand us enough variety to choose from.
BETH DITTO

Female Hands Identity Role Models
I think it’s really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of ‘Vogue’ and ‘Rolling Stone,’ and like I think it’s really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don’t, then you’ll never be able to break that barrier.
BETH DITTO

People Talking Thinking
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.
BETH DITTO

Albums Six Years
Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
BETH DITTO

Fun Instagram Insult
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

The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.

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The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.

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