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[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
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I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.
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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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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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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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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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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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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