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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
Composer
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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[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 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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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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My mom is a sculptress.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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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 think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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 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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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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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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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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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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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 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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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