P. J. Harvey
P. J. Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey, MBE, known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 October 1969
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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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.
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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.
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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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 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 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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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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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.
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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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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.