"First of all, I'd like to thank you very much for this award and thank you for the recognition of my work on this album," she said after accepting the Prize and its £20,000 bounty. "This album took me a long time to write and was very important to me, and I wanted to make something meaningful, not only for me but for other people, and hopefully something that would last."The celebration will be a much more joyous occasion this time around, as Harvey faced some somber circumstances the last time she won. "It's also really great to actually be here this evening because when I last won, on September 11, 2001, I was in Washington, D.C., watching the Pentagon burning from my hotel room window."
PJ Harvey Wins 2011 Mercury Prize, Is First Artist To Win It Twice
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