My mother and father are very involved with music. It’s completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I’m myself, and if I don’t, then I give nothing. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I’m probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I didn’t know folk music growing up, no. It’s something I’ve come to study, really, because I think there’s so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
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. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
Well, I don’t really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I don’t loathe interviews, I’m just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
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. P. J. Harvey Read Quote