Beth Ditto Quotes

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

My parents married in 1959 and came to Amsterdam on honeymoon. That was a huge thing, event, for them. Now my children fly off for the weekend to Riga, Prague, or Barcelona.

That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Motherhood changes everything.

When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

I did a lot of fun things before I had kids - I traveled a lot. Now, I just really love being with my kids.

I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time.

I do feel sorry for my younger brother, he used to field a lot.

My father was rich and renowned, and later - as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with him for a few years - I saw another, more glamorous world.

It's been really stressful being on the road a lot, especially when you're a dad. You miss your son a lot. But you gotta make it work because you get to live a good life. I have to sacrifice.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

There were many things in my childhood I sacrificed: I started travelling quite young, compromising school in terms of learning and time with friends doing normal stuff as a kid you want to do. But obviously I wouldn't change a day.