My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

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.

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

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.

You're your best friend and worst enemy.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

Flowers are the music of the earth.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

I just shoot until I feel good.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.