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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
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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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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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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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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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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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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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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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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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 don't like things to be handed to me on a plate that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.
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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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