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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.
PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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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 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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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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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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'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 had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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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Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.
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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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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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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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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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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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