I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
BETH DITTOThe 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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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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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!
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ABBA was a direct influence on me.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
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