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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.
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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'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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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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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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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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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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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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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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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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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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
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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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I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
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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 try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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