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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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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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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.
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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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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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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 doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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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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 think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.
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