P. J. Harvey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.”

“It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.”

“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.”

“I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.”

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

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

“Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.”

“My mom is a sculptress.”

“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 don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.”