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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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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 studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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'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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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'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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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 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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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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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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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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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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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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I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.
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