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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.
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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
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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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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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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
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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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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 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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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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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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The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
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I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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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'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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