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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.
PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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 think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
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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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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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The devil wanders into my soul.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.
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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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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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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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I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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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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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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