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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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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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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.
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When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.
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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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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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 studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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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 didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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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'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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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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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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