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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
Dorset
Polly Jean Harvey
Trying
Always
Swim
Ground

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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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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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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 studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.
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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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There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.
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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'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.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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 feel like Not For Long was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...
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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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