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You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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.
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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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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I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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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'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.
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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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