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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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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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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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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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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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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 feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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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 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 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've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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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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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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I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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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'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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