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P. J. Harvey
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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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P. J. Harvey
Topic(s):
Respect
"I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I’m always painting and drawing as well, and it’s an ongoing creative assignment."
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P. J. Harvey
Topic(s):
Poetry
"My mom is a sculptress."
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P. J. Harvey
Topic(s):
Mom
"I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It’s to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It’s also full of many wonderful things and love and hope."
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P. J. Harvey
Topic(s):
Hope
"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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P. J. Harvey
Topic(s):
Communication
"I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age."
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P. J. Harvey
Topic(s):
Age
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