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I don’t even bother thinking about what other people think, anymore—I really don’t care. You pretty soon realise that it’s just a waste of energy and a waste of time. You can never make people interpret you how you think you are, you just can’t do that, you just have to choose whether to eat yourself away inside about feeling like you’re being misunderstood, or you can just get on with the business at hand, which is most important, making good work—and making it how you think it should be made.
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PJ Harvey, as quoted in the Stylus Magazine Staff Top 10 column “Top Ten Things Musicians Have Told Me In Interviews” (circa 2005)
In light of the hoopla over the, um, somewhat unenlightened review of her recent concert in Perth, I felt this was worth excavating.
(via brentkeane)
I’m not a PJ Harvey fan but I can get behind this.
(Source: stylusmagazine.com, via brentkeane)
