There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

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.

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

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.

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.