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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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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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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Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
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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 didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, Okay, I want to do that.
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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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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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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
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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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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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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 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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.
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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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