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 comm…

- Beth Gibbons

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

- Beth Gibbons

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

- Beth Gibbons

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 i…

- Beth Gibbons

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 i…

- Beth Gibbons

The blackness of darkness, forever.

- Beth Gibbons

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

- Beth Gibbons

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

- Beth Gibbons

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And…

- Beth Gibbons