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

Beth Orton

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.
BETH ORTON

Feelings Guitar Melody
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
One time I completely thought I’d turned into a werewolf and was sure I could see hairs sprouting from my face. At those times I’d suddenly go very quiet and not talk to anyone, stunned from the developments, being a werewolf and all.
BETH ORTON

Development Faces Hair
I’m not comfortable holidaying in other people’s poverty.
BETH ORTON

Comfortable People Poverty
I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.
BETH ORTON

Good Greatest Fear Say
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.
BETH ORTON

Beautiful Book Dad
My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.
BETH ORTON

Inspiration Next Said
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
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
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.
BETH ORTON

Fields Kissing Summer Wheat
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
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.
BETH ORTON

Frogs Hours Ponds
Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.
BETH ORTON

Hurt Kids Nightmare
I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
BETH ORTON

Guitar Read Taught
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
BETH ORTON

Different Mean Writing
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?
BETH ORTON

Generation Glowing Hands

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

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