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My mom is a sculptress.

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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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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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 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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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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 [ 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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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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 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 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 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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I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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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