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
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
It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in… — 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
Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I… — 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
When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they… — 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… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's… — 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… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that… — 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 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
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