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At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Polly Jean Harvey
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The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
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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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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...
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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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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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The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
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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] 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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You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.
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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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Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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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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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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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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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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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