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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
Dorset
Polly Jean Harvey
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Music
Way
Life
Streamed
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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.
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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.
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I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
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I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.
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I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
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I feel like Not For Long was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...
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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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