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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.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.
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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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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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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
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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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