Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress. PJ Harvey More Quotes by PJ Harvey More Quotes From PJ Harvey I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree. PJ Harvey degreeslevelsart It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. PJ Harvey inherentwant When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them. PJ Harvey idolsyoungwonderful 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. PJ Harvey actionsongtrying I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion. PJ Harvey singerssingingcountry I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well. PJ Harvey careerswritingsong I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you. PJ Harvey newsnewspapersbelieve People want to build musicians into mythical beings. PJ Harvey musicianwantpeople Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life. PJ Harvey emotionwantway In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life. PJ Harvey pieceswritingway 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. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way. PJ Harvey energyplaygiving I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews. PJ Harvey too-muchpayattention Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it. PJ Harvey obstaclesluckyway There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that. PJ Harvey threemattertwo There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises. PJ Harvey singingboringexercise Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person. PJ Harvey self-deprecatingwellsself I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that. PJ Harvey puppetshairpeople Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply. PJ Harvey recordssoulheart I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day. PJ Harvey writingpastyears Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel. PJ Harvey recordsrealwant
