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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.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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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 find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of 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 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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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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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 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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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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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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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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[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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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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 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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