Quotes from PJ Harvey

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.

My mom is a sculptress.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

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.

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

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

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

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

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.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

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.

Shame is the shadow of love.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.