95 Quotes by PJ Harvey

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 do it as honestly as I can.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

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

Well, I’m quite a self-deprecating person.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

I’m finding my way, and I make mistakes.

My mom is a sculptress.

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.

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.