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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.
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I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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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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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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Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.
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As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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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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I feel like Not For Long was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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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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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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