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.

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.

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.

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.

We are not consciousness

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.