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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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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.
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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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I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.
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I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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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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I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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