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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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'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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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 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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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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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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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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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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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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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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 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 not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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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I feel like Not For Long was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...
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At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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