172 Quotes by Beth Ditto

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

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.

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?

High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

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

Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

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

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

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.