Top 37 Quotes by P. J. Harvey

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.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.

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.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

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

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.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.