P. J. Harvey Quotes

You know yourself if you are doing well, and I think my form shouldn't be getting questioned.

Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

The first record I made, when I listen to it, I understand. I understand perfectly well why certain musicians were unhappy with me. I had to decide: was I unhappy with me? I liked it. If they didn't like it, it was on them.

I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.

It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?

Watching your own work doesn't get any easier.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.

I honestly have never really even watched some other things I've done. I don't like doing that to be honest.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

Everybody is their own critic.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

I have a tough time judging myself.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.