For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. Shes 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
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
I feel sorry… for people whove had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who arent their idea of beautiful and therefore arent their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself. – Beth Ditto
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-sos head, its 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
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in Amped, I focus on neural implants. – Daniel H. Wilson
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, lifes big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics. – Rainn Wilson