The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben an…

- Beth Orton

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

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, …

- Beth Orton

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

- Beth Orton

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 qui…

- Beth Orton

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

- Beth Orton

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

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

- Beth Orton

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 ef…

- Beth Orton