“I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyo...” — Beth Ditto Quote

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

“I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.”

“When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.”

“Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.”

“Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.”

“My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.”