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At an early age, she was introduced by her parents to blues music, jazz and art rock, which, she told Rolling Stone in 1995, would later influence her: " I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin ' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart.

So I was exposed to all these very compassionate musicians at a very young age, and that's always remained in me and seems to surface more as I get older.

I think the way we are as we get older is a result of what we knew when we were children.

" During her teenage years, she began listening to new wave and synthpop bands such as Soft Cell, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet though later stated that it was phase when she was " having a bit of a rebellion against my parents ' record collection.

" In her later teenage years, she became a fan of American indie rock bands including Pixies, Television and Slint, though not as many critics have suspected, Patti Smith ; a frequent comparison that Harvey dismisses as " lazy journalism.

" However, recently Harvey has said that Smith is " so energising to see and so passionate with what she's doing " and has also drawn inspiration from Russian folk music, Italian soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber and Henryk Górecki, and Neil Young.

As a lyricist, Harvey has cited numerous poets, authors and lyricists as influences on her work including Harold Pinter, T. S Eliot, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ted Hughes and contemporaries such as Shane MacGowan and Jez Butterworth.