PJ Harvey

The devil wanders into my soul.

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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

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Never settle for anything less than you want.

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Shame is the shadow of love.

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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

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I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

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My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

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I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it…

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

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It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

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It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

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I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in…

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I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a…

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I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war,…

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You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're…

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I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I…

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But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no…

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I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a…

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You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same;…

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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a…

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In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first…

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I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot…

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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care…

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Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people…

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If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do,…

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Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph…

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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh,…

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I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to…

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You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them…

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[Writing] has helped me meet people.

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Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

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It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

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First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

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But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

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