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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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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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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 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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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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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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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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At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
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