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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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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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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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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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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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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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 not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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 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] 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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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
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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 feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...
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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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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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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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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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