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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.
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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'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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 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 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 come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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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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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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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 like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
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There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.
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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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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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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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