When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper."
PJ HarveyI was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put music in it, which is why I tend to have popular melodies over harder beats.
PJ HarveyI 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.
PJ HarveyI 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.
PJ HarveyThe artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
PJ HarveyI was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're gonna try to get a deal." And then first it was Interscope, and then it was Atlantic. And then, I ended up signing with Atlantic, but it was like a long process, a really long... it was A LONG PROCESS. I feel like it took me two years to do it.
PJ Harvey