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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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 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 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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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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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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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.
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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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I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
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I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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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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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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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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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