I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
BETH ORTONI don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
BETH ORTONThe way I write, words can means lots of different things.
BETH ORTONWhen I’m on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.
BETH ORTONOne 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 ORTONYou 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.
BETH ORTONKissing 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 ORTONI’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.
BETH ORTONMy manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.
BETH ORTONAt 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.
BETH ORTONTherapy is like telling your nightmares when you’re a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.
BETH ORTONI was scared of the Bible – it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus’s disciples and I used to show them modern life – how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn’t change my feelings about the Bible jinx.
BETH ORTONI 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.
BETH ORTONI 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 ORTONI 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 ORTONEven when I haven’t had money, I found money to travel. It’s a luxury that’s a kind of necessity, I think.
BETH ORTONI 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