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…

— Beth Gibbons

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

— Beth Gibbons

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

— Beth Gibbons

A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how…

— 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…

— 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

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives…

— Beth Gibbons

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a…

— Beth Gibbons

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is…

— Beth Gibbons

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

— Beth Gibbons

The blackness of darkness, forever.

— Beth Gibbons

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

— 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…

— Beth Gibbons

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

— Beth Gibbons

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then…

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

— Beth Gibbons