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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

Beth Orton

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.
BETH ORTON

Cities London Pigs
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
BETH ORTON

Blown Away Heaven Trying
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.
BETH ORTON

Brother Insecure Trying
I didn’t jump a lot of trees because I didn’t like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I’d imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.
BETH ORTON

Fall Mirrors Sky
I’m not comfortable holidaying in other people’s poverty.
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Comfortable People Poverty
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!
BETH ORTON

People Play Writing
I get told I’m a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word “confessional”. I don’t like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don’t want to put myself so directly in the foreground.
BETH ORTON

Ideas Negative Thinking
To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.
BETH ORTON

Blow Essence Poison
When I’m on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.
BETH ORTON

Feels Makes Satisfied Sense
Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.
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Hurt Kids Nightmare
My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.
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Inspiration Next Said
I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.
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Good Greatest Fear Say
Even when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think.
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Kind Luxury Thinking
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.
BETH ORTON

Painting Stories Want
I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
BETH ORTON

Guitar Read Taught
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
BETH ORTON

Elements Human Wanted

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