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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
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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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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.
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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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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'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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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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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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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