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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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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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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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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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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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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