P. J. Harvey Quotes
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I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
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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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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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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.
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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'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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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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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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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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.