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The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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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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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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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 work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...
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You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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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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And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
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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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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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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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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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 try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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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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