30 Quotes by Beth Gibbons

We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.

I wanted to do live things, needed an audience. Geoff was more of a studio-guy. A real programmer. So pretty soon it was: nice to meet you, bye.

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.

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

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

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

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 sometimes that’s frustrating, especially if you don’t come up with something for three days.

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.