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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
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.
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I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
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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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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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 work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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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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