Beth Orton Quotes

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.

Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.