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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
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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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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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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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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 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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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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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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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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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
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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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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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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'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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'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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