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 ORTONNorfolk 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.
More Beth Orton Quotes
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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.
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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.
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From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
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I just like the child’s nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I’m no longer under its spell, I’m free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.
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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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My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.
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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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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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The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
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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.
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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 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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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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I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
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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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