95 Quotes by PJ Harvey

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

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

Maybe you’re a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that’s really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I’m not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

It’s so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.