The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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.
I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.
This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.