95 Quotes by PJ Harvey

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.

I’m not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that’s the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn’t understand, didn’t know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

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

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

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it’s very physical.

I do write a lot of prose. It’s not disciplined enough yet that it’s actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.