Beth Ditto Quotes

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 like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!

Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

I'm a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

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.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.

I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."

I love Adele so much and it's honestly not because we're both big.

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!

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 middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

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

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.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.

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

I support love any healthy way you can get it.

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.

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.

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that's made for her, it drives me mad.

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

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.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

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.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

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.

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 not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

I'm like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I'm strong, mature, and oh so delicious.

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

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.

The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.

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.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, "Where's your other album?"

True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.