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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.
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I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.
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There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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.
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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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