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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
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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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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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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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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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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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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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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] 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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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.
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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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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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