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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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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There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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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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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 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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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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