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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
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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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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 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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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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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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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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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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
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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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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'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
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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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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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