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" I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. "
P. J. Harvey
Even
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Visual
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" I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way. "
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Art
School
Saying
" My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across. "
P. J. Harvey
Mother
Best
Eyes
" In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. "
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Lot
" I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk. "
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Talk
People
Music
" I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought. "
P. J. Harvey
Much
I Can
Decision
" I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. "
P. J. Harvey
Music
Soul
Write
" I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. "
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Piano
Think
Song
" I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. "
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Like
Photography
Painting
" 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. "
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Way
Always
Treat
" I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. "
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Enjoy
Talking
More
" I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. "
P. J. Harvey
Work
World
Words
" I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led. "
P. J. Harvey
My Own
Mind
Know
" There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises. "
P. J. Harvey
Doing
Boring
Singing
" 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. "
P. J. Harvey
Trying
Song
See
" I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing. "
P. J. Harvey
Like
Person
Decide
" 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. "
P. J. Harvey
Music
Exploration
Feel
" My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone. "
P. J. Harvey
Father
Business
Man
" Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress. "
P. J. Harvey
Too Much
Progress
Work
" There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well. "
P. J. Harvey
Discipline
Better
Hard Work
" There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung. "
P. J. Harvey
Meaning
Bed
You
" 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. "
P. J. Harvey
School
Older
Go
" I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with. "
P. J. Harvey
Great
Work
Every Day
" I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope. "
P. J. Harvey
Love
Hope
Words
" 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. "
P. J. Harvey
Day
Work
Respect
" My mom is a sculptress. "
P. J. Harvey
Mom
" People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. "
P. J. Harvey
Life
Country
People
" Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work. "
P. J. Harvey
Well
Myself
People
" I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. "
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Than
Much
More
" 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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Music
Think
Growing Up
" 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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Day
Life