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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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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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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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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If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.
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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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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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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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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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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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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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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.
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As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.
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