Polly Jean Harvey MBE (born 9 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments.[1] (wikipedia)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We have so many young people that are talented, but they haven't had the opportunity to compete against that level of competition.
Over the last 10 years the average recruiting number is about 74,200. Our final numbers are about 73,200 to 73,300, so we're about 1,000, or one percent, off our average recruits for the last 10 years,
We have lots of services. Though we continue to work on access to them.
We are coming off a really good indoor season, and we feel very confident about what we are capable of doing outdoors.