P. J. Harvey Quotes

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

Nothing is black or white.

I don't really think in absolutes.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The color of truth is gray.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

the truth is often a mixed message

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.