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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Polly Jean Harvey
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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 feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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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 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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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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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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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I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.
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It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
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Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.
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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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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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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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