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 Crafts Copy Share Image
Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on… — 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 People Copy Share Image
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… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a… — PJ Harvey Country Copy Share Image
I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues… — PJ Harvey Blues Copy Share Image
To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like… — 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 Art 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
Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard… — PJ Harvey Crops 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.… — 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 Alive 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
Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of… — PJ Harvey Conflict Copy Share Image
I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to… — PJ Harvey Age 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
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — PJ Harvey Albums 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 Life 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… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Books Copy Share Image
I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want… — PJ Harvey Starting point 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… — 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
Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture. — PJ Harvey Artist 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
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way… — PJ Harvey Dance 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
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 Ideas Copy Share Image
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like,… — PJ Harvey Art Copy Share Image
I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's… — PJ Harvey Confidence 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 Art 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 Country 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 Character 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
Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do… — PJ Harvey Clubs 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 Film Copy Share Image
I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how… — PJ Harvey Change Copy Share Image
I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
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