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

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

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

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.

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.

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