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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.
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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
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