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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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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 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 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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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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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.
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I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
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I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.
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But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.
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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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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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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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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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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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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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