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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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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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Emotion
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Human
Humans
Autobiographical
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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 like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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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 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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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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The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.
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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 devil wanders into my soul.
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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 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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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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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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 make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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