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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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Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.
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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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Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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 find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.
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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 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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I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
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