P. J. Harvey Quotes

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

I have to be creative to be happy.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I'm really happy when I'm actively creating things. When I'm frustrated and not excited, it's because I haven't written anything in a month or so.

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

If I'm not creating, I'm not as happy.

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.