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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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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.
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At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
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Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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 had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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