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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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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 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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You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.
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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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 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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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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[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 doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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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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I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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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 knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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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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