95 Quotes by PJ Harvey

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it’s more the nature of the words and what they’re saying that determines whether it’s a poem or a song.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I’m at very happy stages in my life.

I don’t hold onto anything, because it’s a waste of energy to do so, really. There’s nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

I’ve always felt profoundly about what’s going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn’t felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

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

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

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.

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

I long ago learned that you can’t expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.