54+ Beth Ditto Quotes On Friendship, Education And Seth Meyers

Beth Ditto is an American singer-songwriter from Arkansas. She is best known as the lead singer of the indie rock band Gossip, with whom she released several albums and singles. She is also an LGBTQ+ activist, fashion designer, and solo artist, having released her debut solo album Fake Sugar in 2017. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Beth Ditto on friendship, love, life.

Top 10 Beth Ditto Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.
4. '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.
5. I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."
6. 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!
7. I support love any healthy way you can get it.
8. I'm like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I'm strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
9. Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?
10. I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

Beth Ditto Short Quotes

• I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
• Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
• I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.
• I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
• I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn't even need to be a gay label.
• Not everyone wants to be sexy everyday, wearing tight dresses and spanx.
• We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
• The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.
• I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
• I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.

Beth Ditto Quotes About Love

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

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

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

I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can". — Beth Ditto

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

Beth Ditto Famous Quotes And Sayings

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you? — Beth Ditto

The plus-size revolution that has been happening lately is incredible but it's also creating this "other" beauty standard in which you have to be an hourglass, you have to be super sexy and fierce about showing off your curves. That's quite frightening to me, and I don't fit in it, I don't want to fit it. — Beth Ditto

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle. — Beth Ditto

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

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. — Beth Ditto

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. — Beth Ditto

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

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

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

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. — Beth Ditto

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. — Beth Ditto

I know what I want! And I just go for it. — 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 bed. — Beth Ditto

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Beth Ditto

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

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse. — Beth Ditto

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

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

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. — Beth Ditto

The black bubble dress is a must! The leggings are absolutely amazing too, they fit perfectly and let you breath when still being super high-waisted. They are everything and so easy to pair anything with. — Beth Ditto

The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated like a factory," because that's never the way it was done before. You're talking about a major label, we're talking about serious business; you're not an artist anymore, you're a business, you have to work in terms of product, you have to release a product, and I don't really think that way at all. — Beth Ditto

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Beth Ditto

1. Beth Ditto's work shows us that it's important to be unapologetically yourself, no matter what anyone else may think.
2. She also demonstrates that it's possible to be successful even when you don't conform to societal norms and expectations.
3. Finally, her music encourages us to speak up for what we believe in and to never give up on our dreams.