95 Quotes by PJ Harvey

Well, I don’t really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

I’m always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it’s something I do every day.

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

There’s a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I’m doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

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.

I’ve always felt that I’m affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I’ve always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.

I’m doing quite a lot of painting on stones – little funny fish and animals.

You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn’t considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.

The devil wanders into my soul.