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My mom is a sculptress.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Polly Jean Harvey
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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
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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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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 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'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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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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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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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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 always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about 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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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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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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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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