Thank you! I'm also struck by the fact that not all PJ says should be taken completely at face value, so this artiste who says 'I practice my instruments to keep my hand in' is the same one who some years ago maintained 'I don't pick up a guitar unless I'm songwriting so each time it's like learning it again'!

like all of us her ideas and opinions change over time. it's easy to get caught out by reading two interviews that appear to contradict each other and then realising they were done ten or twenty years apart!!

I can't see Polly writing a memoir of her life at this point. I believe one will come out after she leaves this earth.

“It’s odd too, because someone like Polly [Jean Harvey] doesn’t – she’s really very private. She doesn’t tend to do interviews. She doesn’t like people talking about her. She’s had a couple of people wanting to do biographies on her. The basic instruction [to friends and collaborators] is, ‘don’t talk to them.’ She doesn’t want that kind of thing – she’s not interested in that. She doesn’t think it’s relevant to what she’s doing artistically. She’s just not into it."

Yeah, it seems very unlikely.


Mick Harvey on the likelihood of a biography a few years ago http://www.thegardenforum.org/viewtopic ... hilit=mick

In some ways I don't blame Polly for not wanting an autobiography or a memoir about her out. Polly is so very private about her life and I respect that. I do feel that Polly has plenty of insecurities about herself that are not unsolved. Just saying.