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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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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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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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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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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 don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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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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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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.
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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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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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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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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
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I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
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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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