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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
Dorset
Polly Jean Harvey
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.
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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.
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I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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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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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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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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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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 work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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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 writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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