PJ Harvey famous quotes

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.
-- PJ Harvey

#Book #Writing #Thinking

I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
-- PJ Harvey

#Swim #Trying

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
-- PJ Harvey

#Visceral #Very Deep #Feels

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
-- PJ Harvey

#Father #Men #Sheep

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.
-- PJ Harvey

#Giving #Persons

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 upon when I was offered a record deal.
-- PJ Harvey

#Art #School #Records

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
-- PJ Harvey

#Way #Lucky #Obstacles

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
-- PJ Harvey

#Photography #Drawing #Sculpture

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
-- PJ Harvey

#People #Too Much #Wells

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
-- PJ Harvey

#Art #School #Challenges

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
-- PJ Harvey

#People #Interviews #Music Is

Shame is the shadow of love.
-- PJ Harvey

#Shadow #Shame #Adages

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.
-- PJ Harvey

#Religious #Joy #Religion

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
-- PJ Harvey

#Growing Up #Communication #Thinking

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.
-- PJ Harvey

#Sex #Men #Soul

Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
-- PJ Harvey

#Sex #Men #Sin

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
-- PJ Harvey

#Song #Artist #People

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
-- PJ Harvey

#Country #Glasses #Rose

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
-- PJ Harvey

#Life #One Day #Way

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 know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.
-- PJ Harvey

#Play #Giving #Want

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.
-- PJ Harvey

#Eye #Media #Accepting

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
-- PJ Harvey

#Hair #People #Puppets

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.
-- PJ Harvey

#Thinking #Sense Of Humor #Good Sense Of Humor

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
-- PJ Harvey

#Role Models #Progress #Roles

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
-- PJ Harvey

#Thinking #Role Models #Roles

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets,
-- PJ Harvey

#Film #Poet #Makers

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 scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
-- PJ Harvey

#Song #Trying #Action

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 can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
-- PJ Harvey

#Art #People #Understanding

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 changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
-- PJ Harvey

#Writing #Artist #Thinking

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
-- PJ Harvey

#Writing #Soul #Tortured Souls

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, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
-- PJ Harvey

#Song #Together #Want

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 knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
-- PJ Harvey

#Art #Drawing #Stories

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 try and say the things I'm concerned with.
-- PJ Harvey

#Inspiration #Blessed #Trying

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.
-- PJ Harvey

#Music #Thinking #Politician

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

#Way #Want #Emotion

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 day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
-- PJ Harvey

#Fall #Writing #Hard Work