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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.

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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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 feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...
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I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, Okay, I want to do that.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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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.
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I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
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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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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'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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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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If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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