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"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
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"I believe in unconditional love... I believe in dangerous unselfishness... I believe in daring to achieve... I believe in making mistakes... I believe in helping others... I believe in moving on... I believe in passionate romance... I believe in living the fullness of this human experience... I believe in ME..."
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"My heart gladdens, knowing someone think of at Christmas."
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"We all have human emotions that rob our lives."
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"Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing."
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"Distress leads to dimness."
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"There are not many things that are more powerful than love."
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"Smile because it's infectious.Love because it's contagious."
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"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."
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"I am grateful to those who have betrayed me. They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life."
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"Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence."
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"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."
Music
"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."
Life
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Time
"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."
Music
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
Emotional
"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."
Death
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
"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."
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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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