Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965) is an English singer and songwriter. She is the singer and lyricist for the English band Portishead. Read full biography of Beth Gibbons →
I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very... →
I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.
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?... →
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.... →
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... →
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.
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.
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... →
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... →
Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965) is an English singer and songwriter. She is the singer and lyricist for the English band Portishead.