PJ Harvey

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

— PJ Harvey

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

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page…

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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…

— PJ Harvey

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked…

— PJ Harvey

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way…

— PJ Harvey

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

I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a…

— PJ Harvey

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

— PJ Harvey

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in…

— PJ Harvey

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

— PJ Harvey

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

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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…

— PJ Harvey

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…

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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

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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

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

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My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

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I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how…

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Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

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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

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