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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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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 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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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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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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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 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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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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 that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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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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Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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