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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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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.
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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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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 doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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 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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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 it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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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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Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.
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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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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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