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I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.
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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 don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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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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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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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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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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It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
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You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.
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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 make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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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