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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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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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You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
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I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, Okay, I want to do that.
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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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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.
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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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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 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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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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I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.
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When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.
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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.
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As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.
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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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