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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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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
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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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You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
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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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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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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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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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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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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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