P. J. Harvey People Quotations

I've adjusted pretty well to the hurdles. I've been practicing every day to get better. I really just wanted to give my best effort and fulfill all the expectations and what people have been saying about me.

Tory's work was especially important because so few people who are suffering physically as much as she was are able to communicate with the outside world the way she did.

Tanner got routinely left out of surveys of American art. It was really in the 1980s that people realized that you really needed to be paying attention to more than the usual artists we all grew up on. There was a whole other layer ... either because they didn't work in New York, they weren't close friends with the major critics, or they were artists of color or women or Southerners or Westerners.

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

But we are thrilled to be where we are now. Our real estate people liked the proximity to the mall.

I joined the show because I can't get a record deal and when 17 million people a day are watching you the record companies are more interested.

I had one friend who lived in New Orleans, so I had a way to personally relate to everyone who was in the situation. (But) at that point, everyone becomes part of our United Sates family. We have to go back to the original Constitution and say, 'We the people.' We the people need to respond.

That human bond has to be there. It can't become impersonal. These are people they deal with everyday.

We are to influence people not to be influenced.

For years people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

We don't know how we can move 2 million people - and keep in mind we've got 8.6, ... If a disaster occurred in New York, millions of people would evacuate through New Jersey, so you'd have them plus our millions.

They're acting a lot on what people might think about Bill Campbell, but when the rubber meets the road, I don't know what kind of case they've got.

There's a whole argument in the relief world about whether aid undermines the social and political contract between the state and its citizens. But if the government can't provide assistance, do you want to allow people to die?

This is an opportunity for people who did not do interviews to have some one-on-one time. These guys will be able to talk to them and make their own decision.

What they can take credit for is the increased local interest in Burning Man. If people care about Burning Man as much as Borg2 indicates, they might turn their attention away from the small, embattled group that created it.

When we closed there was a general feeling of shock and dismay. But people will be pleased with what has happened. I'm looking forward to watching this sleeping giant wake up.

People tell me not to pay attention to this, but you stoop to a new low when you make it personal. It's a damned shame you had to move back to a community that's so inept.

People didn't really watch us because we were outdoors, people watched us because there was dramatic activity going on. Like the Davis Cup, which takes place in the outdoors, but it really isn't an outdoor sport.

If people don't like what the code says, they should change the code.

A lot of people were going on about suicide attempts but this wasn't one. You couldn't have done it if you had tried.

We have so many young people that are talented, but they haven't had the opportunity to compete against that level of competition.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.