Beth Ditto Quotes

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.

The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

You have to be someone.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I'm still very much Kate.

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

You blows who you is.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.