“There's a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia. One of the things that you find time and time again - not just with music, but with literature - is that things that appear to be quite depressing on the surface can ironically be very uplifting and touching to other people. When you hear something that really reminds you that you're not alone in feeling sad, depressed, melancholic, angry - I think that can actually be a very cathartic experience.” SadnessSadUpliftingMelancholyTouchingDepressing Author:Steven Wilson
“I feel I'm living in parentheses” LifeLivingDay To DayInsignificantInsignificanceParentheses Author:Steven Wilson
“We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone. We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.” LostLonelinessLonelyDisappearAloneChoiceDisappearanceAlone But Not LonelyDisappearing Author:Steven Wilson
“I believe that, for anyone that creates a fictional character, in order to make that character believable so people can really believe that this character exists is actually to implant your own autobiography into that character.” CharacterCharactersCreating Characters Author:Steven Wilson
“I'm tired of everyone And that includes myself” Pariah Book:Steven Wilson: To The Bone Source: Steven Wilson: To The Bone
“Where do you go if you don’t belong anywhere? If I wanted to run away then why come to the city? Because this is the place to hide. This is the place to be invisible. Anyone can be no one here, and I am someone that wants to be no one.” InvisibleHidingCityUnnoticedHideInvisibilityNobodyNo OneDon T BelongBeing Nobody Author:Steven Wilson
“I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.” IfsKnowsYearsKindCoupleYears AgoReleaseCopiesCommunionBassVinyl Author:Steven Wilson
“Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?” IfsProblemSoundPiecesParticularSourceTrackCommunionBass Author:Steven Wilson
“Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.” MayChildrenFriendshipPleasureMistakeLessonsActivityLimitsCreditPlentyThings To DoGardeningCompellingHarvestFamily And FriendsShortageCooperatives Author:Steven Wilson
“You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.” MayReasonTimeGreenBeing The BestPullingThumbsCultivating Author:Steven Wilson
“We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.” LostBlackSpaceClockMapsRelapseSkylines Author:Steven Wilson
“It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!” PeopleCoursesFunBitsJokes Author:Steven Wilson
