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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.
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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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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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I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.
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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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I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.
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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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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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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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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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