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" 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. "

P. J. Harvey

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Older

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" 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. "

" 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

Person

Decide

" 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. "

" I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. "

P. J. Harvey

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Much

" 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. "

" There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises. "

" People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. "

" I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. "

P. J. Harvey

Photography

Painting

" I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. "

" I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being. "

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

" Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work. "

" I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led. "

" 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. "

" People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" 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. "