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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
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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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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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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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 had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, Okay, I want to do that.
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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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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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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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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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