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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
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
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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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I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.
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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 not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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 feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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