112 Quotes by Steven Wilson

It's too easy now to find music, and it's therefore too easy to dismiss music, particularly music that doesn't hit you the first time you hear it.

Like anybody, I look around at the world that we live in, and I find it hard to be completely positive about everything that's going on.

There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like 'Shout' by Tears for Fears. That's a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa or King Crimson, that's what attracted me.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

Ultimately, I'd like to create a body of work where every album has its own personality and a reason to exist within the catalog, not just 'more of the same.'

I always wanted to create my own musical world. That takes time and must be earned, and it does mean sometimes confronting the expectations of the audience.