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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
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Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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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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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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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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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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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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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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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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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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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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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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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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.
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