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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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[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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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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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'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 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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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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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 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 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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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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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 work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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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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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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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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