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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 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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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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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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 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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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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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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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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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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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 always trying to swim to new ground.
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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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