Top 128 Quotes & Sayings by PJ Harvey - Page 3

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

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

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

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.

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.