PJ Harvey Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

  PJ Harvey

  Fall, Hard Work, Writing

• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Creating

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Track

• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Needs, Able

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Years

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

• As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, School, Mean

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• [Writing] has helped me meet people.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, People

• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

• I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Past, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically and stylistic-wise that I can write, but I don't really have an avenue to show it 'cause most of the things I'm writing are in Hip Hop.

  PJ Harvey

  Wise, Writing, Artist

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Soul, Tortured Souls

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I 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

  Writing, Years, Two

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Practice, Get Better

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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

  PJ Harvey

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "PJ Harvey and John Parish". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 27, 2009.

• I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

  PJ Harvey

  Rap, Writing, Playing Dress Up

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• You 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 Harvey

  War, Writing, Events

  Source: www.wfuv.org

• I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Way, Interviews

• 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 Harvey

  Writing, Rapper, Pjs

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Issues, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Pieces, Way

• Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Rapper, Pjs

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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