Beth Ditto Quotes

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.

I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

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.

Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.

I know what I want! And I just go for it.

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

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

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

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.

To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's crazy. But that's 'okay' because you look healthier.

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.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.