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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
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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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I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.
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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 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 artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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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'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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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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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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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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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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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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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 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'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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