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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.
PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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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 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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I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
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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'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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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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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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