no one tells the story the same way I do (9 October 2016)

Seamus Murphy, The Swimmers (11), Volograd, Moscow. Russia. September 1999


I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

- P.J. Harvey

P.J. Harvey and Seamus Murphy collaboration, The Hollow of the Hand, 2015.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

- P.J. Harvey

 Seamus Murphy,  Polly Jean Harvey, 2011

Maria Mochnacz, P.J. Harvey

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

- P.J. Harvey

Seamus Murphy, Mexican Drugs (14) - Rancheros ride their horses in the desert south of Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico, May 2008

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

- P.J. Harvey

Seamus Murphy, Maximum City (3) - A child waking up in a makeshift hammock on the street in the Port district, Mumbai, August 2009