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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.
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I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.
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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 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 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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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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There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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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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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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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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