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.
BETH ORTONI 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.
More Beth Orton Quotes
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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.
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I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.
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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.
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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?
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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
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The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
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I’ve also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he’s amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it’s incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
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My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.
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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.
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Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.
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When I’m on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.
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I’m not comfortable holidaying in other people’s poverty.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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