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Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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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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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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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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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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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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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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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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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.
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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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It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
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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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