Latest Beth Ditto Quotes from Interviews

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

  Beth Ditto

  Strong, Mature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Beth Ditto

  Letting Go, Distance, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I support love any healthy way you can get it.

  Beth Ditto

  Support, Healthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Beth Ditto

  Love Is, Emotion, Accepting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Beth Ditto

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines, so we could only interpret the aesthetic and message of punk scenes around the world. We were basically the duck-billed platypuses of punk.

  Beth Ditto

  Baby, Gay, Imagination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Beth Ditto

  Memories, Brain, Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Political, You Can Do It

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Beth Ditto

  Fun, Insult

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, Good Relationship, Favourite

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.

  Beth Ditto

  Makeup, College, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I grew up with the motto of "they can't kill you and eat you," and I still think that's right. You sure as hell can't! When it comes to speaking about my body makes other people uncomfortable but it doesn't make me uncomfortable. It makes them think more about themselves than it makes them judge me. I've always had this body and had to live with it. I've never been a little thing. I've been smaller but I've never been small, even as a baby. I've never had that window into that kind of world where people only talk to you because you're conventionally sexy.

  Beth Ditto

  Sexy, Baby, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn't perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America's ever had. We were basking in the glow. We forgot that there's always going to be a backlash within a movement every time. When I think about race, there were a lot of pockets of people that were still living in fear under the Obama administration, but we were in this blissful celebration mode. Now we are constantly reminded that, although there are lots of good people in the world, there are just as many horrible people.

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking about gender fluidity and trans issues openly and discussing them with respect. It was almost to the point where educating people about transgender rights wasn't an issue. We were including trans people as a normal part of our conversations instead of seeing their presence as this shocking thing to the system. We forgot that those things can be taken away from you because there are people in the world that, for whatever f - king reason, can't live and let live.

  Beth Ditto

  Taken, Gay, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers are f - king weirdos. We don't have gender rules that tell us what we can and can't be. We just make it up as we go along. We have full creative license to be whatever we want to be.

  Beth Ditto

  Art, Gay, Creative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Beth Ditto

  People, Existence, Mundane

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I don't get mad with people, like, 'Oh, but that's not what the song was about...' It's also nice to know that people are mindlessly dancing to a song about the US Government's stance on same-sex marriages... especially straight jocks. I love that idea. I think that's the beauty of music - it's different for everybody.

  Beth Ditto

  Song, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• I always think that people think that women in music are always angry. I'm not angry. Rock 'n' roll music made by men is so much more over-the-top aggressive than when a women says "you" and they're screaming it, it's like, 'Oh my God!' I'm like, 'Have you heard rock music made by men?'

  Beth Ditto

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn't even need to be a gay label.

  Beth Ditto

  Gay, Thinking, Needs

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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

  Beth Ditto

  Singers, Said, Wanted

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

• You don't pigeonhole yourself, people pigeonhole you. If the world is not at a place yet where it can just be like, "This music is gay and it's music," then it's not my fault that it gets pigeonholed, it's not the people in the band's fault, it's because people won't just let music be music, people who need to put a name on something or to critique something.

  Beth Ditto

  Gay, Names, People

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

• 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.

  Beth Ditto

  Years, Albums, Six

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

• I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."

  Beth Ditto

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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

  Beth Ditto

  Hate, I Hate

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.