Top 90 PJ Harvey Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Shame is the shadow of love.”

— PJ Harvey

2. “I do take enormous interest in what’s going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.”

— PJ Harvey

3. “You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.”

— PJ Harvey

4. “I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.”

— PJ Harvey

5. “We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we’ll float. Take life as it comes.”

— PJ Harvey

6. “I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun’s shining. It’s a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on.”

— PJ Harvey

7. “I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.”

— PJ Harvey

8. “I don’t hold onto anything, because it’s a waste of energy to do so, really. There’s nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.”

— PJ Harvey

9. “I’m finding my way, and I make mistakes.”

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10. “The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that’s the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.”

— PJ Harvey

11. “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.”

— PJ Harvey

12. “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.”

— PJ Harvey

13. “Well, I’m quite a self-deprecating person.”

— PJ Harvey

14. “Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.”

— PJ Harvey

15. “When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it’s more the nature of the words and what they’re saying that determines whether it’s a poem or a song.”

— PJ Harvey

16. “I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it’s very physical.”

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17. “Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.”

— PJ Harvey

18. “People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.”

— PJ Harvey

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

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20. “What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.”

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21. “Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I’ll let him in.”

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22. “First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.”

— PJ Harvey

23. “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

24. “Everything from a lifetime’s worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.”

— PJ Harvey

25. “But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn’t find much humor there.”

— PJ Harvey

26. “I really don’t pay too much attention; I don’t go out of my way to read any interviews.”

— PJ Harvey

27. “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.”

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28. “I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don’t think that’s possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.”

— PJ Harvey

29. “There’s 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.”

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30. “The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life – no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.”

— PJ Harvey

31. “Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.”

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32. “I’ve so much left to explore, it’s enormously exciting to me. It’s a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.”

— PJ Harvey

33. “I see men come and go, but there’ll be one who’ll collect my soul.”

— PJ Harvey

34. “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.”

— PJ Harvey

35. “I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.”

— PJ Harvey

36. “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.”

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37. “Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.”

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38. “My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn’t have a grocery store.”

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39. “And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.”

— PJ Harvey

40. “If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It’s all down to the listener.”

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41. “My mom is a sculptress.”

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

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

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44. “I’m not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don’t. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I’m concerned with.”

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45. “It varies, I don’t think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.”

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46. “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.”

— PJ Harvey

47. “I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.”

— PJ Harvey

48. “I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.”

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49. “Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.”

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50. “You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn’t considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.”

— PJ Harvey