The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
BETH ORTONI’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.
More Beth Orton Quotes
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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 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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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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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 don’t believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I’ve been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.
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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.
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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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My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.
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From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
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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.
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I don’t read music; I taught myself guitar.
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I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.
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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
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I’m not comfortable holidaying in other people’s poverty.
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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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