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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.
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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
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There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.
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As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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