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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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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 think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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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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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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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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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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 like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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