You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
PJ HarveyIf I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
PJ HarveyTo think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
PJ HarveyI 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 HarveyYou go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.
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 Harvey