“I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.” Quote by Sean Penn
“When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.” ThinkingNightHumanityBed Author:Sean Penn
“I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.” WritingYearsPastChanged Author:PJ Harvey
“I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.” StoriesSongShort Story Author:PJ Harvey
“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.” WantSometimesEnoughSeemsTogetherSong Author:PJ Harvey
“There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.” WellsHardUseLevelsStudyHard WorkDisciplineGet Better Author:PJ Harvey
“There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.” WayCan DoTypeBed Author:PJ Harvey
“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.” WayMightCertainSongDetermineRefrainChorus Author: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.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingYearsWellsStillsI CanMomentsLastsSongTakenFiveNew WaysSongwriters Author: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.” WorldWritingWellsSongFeltCareersBases Author: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.” KnowsCountryLanguageEmotionSingingSingers Author:PJ Harvey
