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

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.
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When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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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 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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