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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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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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Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.
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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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Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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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'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
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