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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.
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But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.
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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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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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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
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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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I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.
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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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 like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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