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 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 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 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 melody guitar feelings 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