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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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 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 think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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 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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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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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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It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
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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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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
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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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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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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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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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