PJ Harvey Quotes

To me, Romney is 'Our Idiot Brother', and Obama is 'The King's Speech'. You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

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.

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.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

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...

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

You think that God positioned you here so you can just have it all to yourself? God blesses you to become a blessing. That's the deal.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

Failure is not falling down but staying down.

Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

I need to go where I feel loved.

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

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.