I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.
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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
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.
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 they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.
Beth Gibbons
I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.
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 it is sung.
Beth Gibbons
I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
Beth Gibbons
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