Pj Quotes

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

'Face death'? Am I going to die?
NDA: I'll take this one. Yes, you will die - some day. When you do, you'll go to live, er, to exist in the Underworld.
PJ: Leo didn't.
NDA: Leo cheated death with a potion that he shouldn't have had. Without it, he'd have stayed dead. Like he was supposed to.
PJ: Hazel came back too.
NDA: That's totally different! I brought her back on purpose.
PJ: Just saying that not everyone who dies stays dead.
NDA: Next question. ~ Rick Riordan

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

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

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

Last question: will I really get zapped by lightning if I call Zeus's Fist the 'Poop Pile'?
PJ: Only one way to find out!
NDA: Go ahead, kid! I'm sure my dad would love to meet you.
AC: Percy! Nico!
PJ and NDA: Anna-be-eth! ~ Rick Riordan

Shame is the shadow of love. ~ 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes. ~ 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 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

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

A quest? Do I have to go on a quest?
AC: You may not believe it now, because this is all so new to you, but getting picked for a quest is every demigod's dream. It's what we train for. It's what we're born to do.
PJ: You might not get picked right away. I mean, sure, I did - I was here, what, less than a week before I headed out to face death?
AC: You were a special case, Seaweed Brain.
PJ: Aw, you called me special!
NDA: She also called you Seaweed Brain. ~ Rick Riordan

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

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

Will my conversations stay private, or will Iris stay on the line?
PJ: You know, I never thought about that.
AC: I'm sure Iris hits mute. ~ Rick Riordan

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different. ~ PJ Harvey

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor. ~ 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

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

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

Absurdity is the best cure for adversity. ~ PJ Skinner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She probably thinks the spiritual path is a new style of pavers available at Bunnings. ~ Pj Mayhem

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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