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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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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 not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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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I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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