The blackness of darkness, forever.

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.

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.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

I got to watch Anthropoid with this Czech audience and the story means so much to the Czech people so watching it with that audience was kind of terrifying but they responded very well.

Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.

And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.