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The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.
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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 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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There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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'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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[Writing] has helped me meet people.
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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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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things 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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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 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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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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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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