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"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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"You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well."
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"As we plant in tears, we shall harvest with joy."
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"As long as we have life, we keep love and hope alive."
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"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
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"I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed."
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"Just hope. Hope is filled with power."
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"If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do."
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"You hope for the best, but it's really OK if you don't win. They say it's just nice to be nominated, and it really is."
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"Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it."
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"There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong!"
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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
"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
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
Emotional
"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"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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"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."
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"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."
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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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