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I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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Singer-Songwriter
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Polly Jean Harvey
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Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.
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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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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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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 like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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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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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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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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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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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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