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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.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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 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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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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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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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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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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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 think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.
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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.
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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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