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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
Dorset
Polly Jean Harvey
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Words
Change
Music
Sung
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Laying
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Bed

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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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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'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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 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'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'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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 think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.
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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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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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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'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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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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