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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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Humans
Autobiographical
Writer
Deals
Emotion

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I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.
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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 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.
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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 probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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] 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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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'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 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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I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...
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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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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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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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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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I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
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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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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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