PJ Harvey Quotes

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• 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 every…
• Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
• What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.
• I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
• I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.
• Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
• To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets,
• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a…
• And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art…
• I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have…
• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect,…
• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I…
• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to…
• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly…
• We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
• People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled…

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