Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

The blackness of darkness, forever.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

The entirety of the world's knowledge is in your pants right now.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!