Pj Quotes & Sayings

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you. — PJ Harvey

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

You my door gunner?" Dempsey said. "Door gunner, aircrew, combat medic, and ass kicker, sir." "PJ? — Jeffrey Wilson

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes. — PJ Harvey

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. — PJ Harvey

Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion. — Beth Hoffman

Do you wanna hear something sick? We are but victims of desire — Pearl Jam

Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes - Annabeth, PJ: The Lightning Thief — Rick Riordan

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too. — PJ Harvey

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter ... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country. — PJ Harvey

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can. — PJ Harvey

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person. — PJ Harvey

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. — PJ Harvey

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree. — PJ Harvey

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow. — PJ Harvey

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

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything. — PJ Harvey

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. — PJ Harvey

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. — PJ Harvey

There's nothing better than online shopping in your PJ's with a glass of wine with the kids asleep! — Helen Wilson

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply. — PJ Harvey

I gave a relenting sigh. "Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's." Pj's that consisted of nothing but a tank top and boy shorts
an image I didn't want to sear into Scott's mind.
Scott smiled. "I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter." Ugh. The dimple in his cheek deepened. And it was not in any way cute ... — Becca Fitzpatrick

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great! — PJ Harvey

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. — PJ Harvey

Yo, yo, yo, check it out, said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome — Christopher Moore

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

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

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

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do. — PJ Harvey

If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener. — PJ Harvey

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you. — PJ Harvey

The devil wanders into my soul. — PJ Harvey

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

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. — PJ Harvey

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it. — PJ Harvey

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store. — PJ Harvey

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

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up. — Matt Cameron

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together. — PJ Harvey

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

You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe — Rick Riordan

Think of it as a life experience," I mumbled. "Isn't your dad always saying we need more of that?"
"I don't think prancing around PJ Jamieson's pool in our underwear is exactly what he had in mind. — Jody Gehrman

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible. — PJ Harvey

Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited — PJ Ladd

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

She wears those old fashioned pj's like body armour. Going to bed these days is like wresting with Kevlar. — Poppet

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter. — PJ Harvey

I snorted. PJ. He could've been called BJ for the way he was acting, on his knees and at the guy's beck and call. — Tijan

Heart condition? That's rich. I guess you can call a heart not beating a condition.-PJ — Nessie Strange

People want to build musicians into mythical beings. — PJ Harvey

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can. — PJ Harvey

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. — PJ Harvey

I'm rockin' PJ's and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt — Mac Miller

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals. — PJ Harvey

Closing his eyes, he made it about fifteen minutes before his tossing and turning rode those pj bottoms so far up his crotch he felt like he could cough flannel.
If he was doing the mattress and pillow thing, he usually slept naked and now he knew why.
This was f'in ridiculous. — J.R. Ward

This was the stuff nightmares were made of. Going to school in your Spiderman pj's. Giving a public speech naked. And discovering you'd accidentally slept with your boss. — Jill Shalvis

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

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. — PJ Harvey

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else. — PJ Harvey

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

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

So why don't we have a go? There are two of us.'
Little Mike realized that his friend was actually serious. 'Two of us? Father Hillary had God Almighty helping out, and look where it got him.'
'I know. But we're a team. For years, since primary. Batman and Robin.'
'Robin got killed,' said Mike.
Christy was shocked. 'He did not, did he? Jesus, I didn't hear about that.'
'Yeah. It was a big shock. The Joker kilt him.'
'That fuckin' Joker. I didn't see that coming.' ("Taking on PJ") — Eoin Colfer

Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's"
"I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter. — Becca Fitzpatrick

But even in September, Thursday was a big money night, seven to eight hundred take-home, and that's what April concentrated on as she drove, Franny's chin starting to loll against her chest - April made herself think of that fat roll of tens and twenties she'd have at closing, how she'd fold it into the front pocket of her jeans then go to the house mom's office off the dressing room and give Tina a hundred before she found Franny in her pj's on Tina's brown vinyl couch, and she'd try not to think of the walls above Tina's desk covered with dancers' schedules and audition Polaroids of naked women, some of them under postcards from girls who came and went. — Andre Dubus III

Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey ... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl. — Carmen Ejogo

Shame is the shadow of love. — PJ Harvey

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

I 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 Harvey

You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody. — PJ Harvey

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there. — Evan Rachel Wood

I'm always trying to swim to new ground. — PJ Harvey

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

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that. — PJ Harvey

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you. — PJ Harvey

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture. — PJ Harvey

A miniature dancing bear that had to go potty. Scooping him up, Grace ran for the front door, getting him outside just in time for him to race to the closest tree and lift a stumpy leg. Toby, still in his Star War's pj's, trotted across the yard to join him in anointing the tree. — Jill Shalvis

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. — PJ Harvey

We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car. — Brody Armstrong

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul. — PJ Harvey

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion. — PJ Harvey

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

Don't take tension, take ninesion — Pankaj Giri

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

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love. — PJ Harvey

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

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. — PJ Harvey

I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs. — Valerie June

If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her. — Matt Cameron

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer. — PJ Harvey

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill. — Imelda May

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician. — PJ Harvey

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway. — PJ Harvey

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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. — PJ Harvey

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel. — PJ Harvey

More often than not he wore jeans with at least half a dozen holes, flip-flops that made him look like he was heading to the beach and a T-shirt, usually with a snarky saying. Today's offering was Heavily armed, easily pissed. — Maya Banks

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song. — PJ Harvey

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor. — PJ Harvey

[in response to a jealous comment made by Amber] PJ's mouth snarls open. If you aren't going to play nice, my thorny little bush, I think you should return to the dirty playground that you crawled from. — Laurie Faria Stolarz

Not that she really wanted to mess with a pregnant woman. There was too much similarity between them and pit bulls for her liking. — Maya Banks