PJ Harvey

I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

— PJ Harvey

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

— PJ Harvey

Shame is the shadow of love.

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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

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Never settle for anything less than you want.

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The devil wanders into my soul.

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Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

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[Writing] has helped me meet people.

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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.

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But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

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It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

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It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

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First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it…

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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like…

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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda…

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I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as…

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Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

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The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's…

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Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on…

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I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what…

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I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a…

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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat…

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I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna…

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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh,…

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Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph…

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If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do,…

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If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come…

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I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot…

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In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first…

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I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to…

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You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them…

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It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

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I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

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I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

— PJ Harvey