There’s also 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. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
Maybe I’m just purely lucky. If I’ve come up against obstacles I’ve always found another way around it. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then 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. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I’d want to read the stories that I’d written, I’d want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I’d want to show that work in some way. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I’ve been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It’s to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It’s also full of many wonderful things and love and hope. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
There’s so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they’re sung. P. J. Harvey Read Quote
