61 Quotes by Beth Orton

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.