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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.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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'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 I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.
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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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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
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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 Not For Long was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...
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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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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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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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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 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 do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.
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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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