Latest Beth Orton Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Beth Orton

  Children, Helping Others, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

  Beth Orton

  Hurt, Kids, Nightmare

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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!

  Beth Orton

  Writing, Play, People

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• 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.

  Beth Orton

  Blow, Essence, Poison

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

  Beth Orton

  Grief, Dna, Useless

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Negative

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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

  Stories, Want, Painting

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• I 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 Orton

  Running, Jesus, Couple

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I 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 Orton

  Fall, Mirrors, Sky

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• 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

  Hair, Development, Faces

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• 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.

  Beth Orton

  Sibling, Drinking, Kissing

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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, Dad, Book

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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 Orton

  Somewhere Else, Effort, Want

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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

  Ponds, Frogs, Hours

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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

  Summer, Kissing, Wheat Fields

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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.

  Beth Orton

  Brother, Insecure, Trying

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• 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

  Pigs, Cities, London

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• 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.

  Beth Orton

  Writing, Scratches, Taught

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

  Beth Orton

  Guitar, Taught

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

  Beth Orton

  Satisfied, Feels, Make Sense

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Beth Orton

  Inspiration, Next, Said

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• 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

  Guitar, Feelings, Melody

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

  Beth Orton

  People, Poverty, Comfortable

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

• Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

  Beth Orton

  Thinking, Luxury, Kind

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

• 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.

  Beth Orton

  Swimming, Love Is, Sea

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.