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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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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] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.
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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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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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 think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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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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When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.
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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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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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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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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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 loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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