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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 come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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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.
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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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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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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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Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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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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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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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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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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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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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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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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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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I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
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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 make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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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.
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