P. J. Harvey Quotes

There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.

I consider myself a musician.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

Since his childhood, Bappa has observed me singing and practicing and is well aware of all sorts of recording and singing arrangements. I have a studio at my home, so whenever he needs my help I make sure I stand by him. I often sing for the tunes that he composes.

When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

I've never really considered myself a musician.