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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
Dorset
Polly Jean Harvey
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Mistake
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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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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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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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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.
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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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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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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 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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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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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] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.
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