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The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what’s really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

Beth Ditto

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
BETH DITTO

Hate Pressure Wells
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
Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
BETH DITTO

Clothes Pants Wear
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 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
ABBA was a direct influence on me.
BETH DITTO

Country Direct Influence
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
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
When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.
BETH DITTO

Closets Kids Rosie
When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
BETH DITTO

Media People Thinking
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
This is how I feel about everything that’s out of your control: once you make a record, it’s not yours anymore. There’s nothing you can do. It’s the way I feel about political movements – both of those things grow on their own.
BETH DITTO

Grow Movement Political
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
We all seek approval, and our mother’s seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom’s blessing or not.
BETH DITTO

Cutting Mom Mother
We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
BETH DITTO

Certain Ideas Shape

The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what’s really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

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