Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me... — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I feel like I make a soundtrack for the come up, and I feel like there's so many people that's trying to… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I feel like I make a soundtrack for the come up, and I feel like there's so many people that's trying to figure out… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
![“[Writing] has helped me meet people.” quote by PJ Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08a/pj-harvey-3601_people_writing-has-helped-me-meet-people-265808_2658088.jpg)
![“What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.” quote by PJ Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/341/pj-harvey-3601_capable_what-rare-albom-allows-me-to-do-is-gonna_3038940.jpg)
![“The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.” quote by PJ Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/46d/pj-harvey-3601_crazy_the-first-song-i-heard-from-me-was-meek_198080.jpg)
