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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 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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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've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.
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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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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 always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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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 it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.
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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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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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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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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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