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" It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. "
P. J. Harvey
Want
Know
Me
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. "
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Been
" 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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School
Saying
" There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises. "
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Doing
Boring
Singing
" Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress. "
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Progress
Work
" 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. "
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My Own
Mind
Know
" 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. "
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Work
World
Words
" Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work. "
P. J. Harvey
Well
Myself
People
" Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it. "
P. J. Harvey
Obstacles
Way
Lucky
" 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. "
P. J. Harvey
Music
Think
Growing Up
" 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
" 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'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. "
P. J. Harvey
Way
Always
Treat
" I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way. "
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Go
Natural
Want
" 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. "
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Like
Person
Decide
" 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 probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. "
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Much
More
" I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. "
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Talking
More
" 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. "
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Mother
Best
Eyes
" 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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Mind
Think
Work
" 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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Solo
Interesting
Lot
" I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. "
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Emotion
I Am
Deals
" 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
" 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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People
Day
Life
" 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. "
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Love
Hope
Words
" People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. "
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Life
Country
People
" 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. "
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