P. J. Harvey Quotes
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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'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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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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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.
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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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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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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 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.