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 More Quotes by Beth Orton More Quotes From Beth Orton 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 kissing drinking 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 dad beautiful book 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 I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty. Beth Orton poverty comfortable people 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 luxury kind thinking My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true. Beth Orton next inspiration said When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense. Beth Orton satisfied make-sense feels 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 scratches taught writing 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 insecure brother trying 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 london cities pigs 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 wheat-fields kissing summer 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 light helping-others children Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. Beth Orton someone you spring beautiful I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.' Beth Orton i-am me moment you I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do. Beth Orton over embrace writing song I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations. Beth Orton your good think work Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet. Beth Orton know you suits song