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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
Dorset
Polly Jean Harvey
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Human
Humans
Autobiographical
Writer
Deals
Emotion

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I feel like Not For Long was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...
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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'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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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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I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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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 think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
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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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And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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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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I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
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I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
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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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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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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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