Beth Ditto

Not everyone wants to be sexy everyday, wearing tight dresses and spanx.

— Beth Ditto

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a…

— Beth Ditto

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as…

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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."

— Beth Ditto

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

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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…

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When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying…

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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…

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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,…

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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters,…

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I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as…

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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…

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I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing…

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You don't pigeonhole yourself, people pigeonhole you. If the world is not at a place yet where it can just be like,…

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I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used…

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I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion:…

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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly…

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Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels!…

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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's…

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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…

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With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap,…

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It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's…

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Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by…

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When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the…

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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…

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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…

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I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I…

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My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more…

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I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's…

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This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist,…

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I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's…

— Beth Ditto

To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead…

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Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself…

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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, and…

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I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or…

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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of…

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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…

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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…

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'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always…

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Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really…

— Beth Ditto