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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.
PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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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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And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
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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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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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