Top 90 Beth Ditto Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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!”

— Beth Ditto

53. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

54. “With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress – a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.”

— Beth Ditto

55. “Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.”

— Beth Ditto

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

— Beth Ditto

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

— Beth Ditto

58. “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

59. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

60. “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 your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.”

— Beth Ditto

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

— Beth Ditto

62. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

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

— Beth Ditto

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

— Beth Ditto

65. “I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.”

— Beth Ditto

66. “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

67. “I’m not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.”

— Beth Ditto

68. “A few years back, when my style was ‘punk grandma,’ I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more ‘1980s substitute teacher gone wild.’”

— Beth Ditto

69. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

70. “When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?””

— Beth Ditto

71. “I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.”

— Beth Ditto

72. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

73. “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!”

— Beth Ditto

74. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

75. “When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand’s flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.”

— Beth Ditto

76. “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

77. “I think it’s really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of ‘Vogue’ and ‘Rolling Stone,’ and like I think it’s really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don’t, then you’ll never be able to break that barrier.”

— Beth Ditto

78. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

79. “I’ve never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn’t work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.”

— Beth Ditto

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

— Beth Ditto

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

— Beth Ditto

82. “I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all – whether it’s fancy, cheap or, I’m ashamed to say, even if it’s bad for the environment.”

— Beth Ditto

83. “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

84. “I don’t feel famous and I didn’t want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.”

— Beth Ditto

85. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

86. “For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the ’80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.”

— Beth Ditto

87. “I’m constantly thinking about what I’ll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don’t know, because it’s not in your hands, you don’t make the decision.”

— Beth Ditto

88. “I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It’s incredible – Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.”

— Beth Ditto

89. “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

90. “All this fashion stuff – who’s cool now – is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.”

— Beth Ditto

91. “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.”

— Beth Ditto

92. “I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.”

— Beth Ditto

93. “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

94. “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.”

— Beth Ditto