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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
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
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You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.
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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.
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And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
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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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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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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.
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I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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