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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...
PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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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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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 feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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 like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
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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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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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