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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.
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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[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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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 don't like things to be handed to me on a plate that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.
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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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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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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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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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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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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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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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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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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.
PJ Harvey
And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.
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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
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