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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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 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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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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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Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, Okay, I want to do that.
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[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.
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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 think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
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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'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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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'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
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