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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, Okay, I want to do that.
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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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Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.
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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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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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 studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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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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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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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 come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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