Steven Wilson

There's always something special playing in your home country in front of your home audience.

— Steven Wilson

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.

— Steven Wilson

I am a great believer that you should record more than you need and then use the absolute best.

— Steven Wilson

When I did 'Hand Cannot Erase,' I didn't have a specific singer in mind.

— Steven Wilson

I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop…

— Steven Wilson

If you live in the city, you only have to look out your window to see enough that would make you feel…

— Steven Wilson

There are certain topics that I've come back to time and again throughout my career. On 'To the Bone,' there are certain…

— Steven Wilson

When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up.…

— Steven Wilson

Ultimately, I'd like to create a body of work where every album has its own personality and a reason to exist within…

— Steven Wilson

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to…

— Steven Wilson

It's nice to be in the position where you're the guy with the vision, but you're able to work with people who…

— Steven Wilson

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

— 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…

— Steven Wilson

I never made a distinction, really, between music and sound. Let me explain what I mean by that. I grew up near…

— Steven Wilson

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's…

— Steven Wilson

Every time I make a new record, some of my existing fans are going to like it, and some are not. It's…

— Steven Wilson

People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative…

— Steven Wilson

I grew up with vinyl records and remember the pleasure and the kind of buzz that I got from buying a beautiful…

— Steven Wilson

Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics,…

— Steven Wilson

“I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read I got secrets in my garden shed…

— Steven Wilson

Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad;…

— Steven Wilson

There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be…

— Steven Wilson

Like anybody, I look around at the world that we live in, and I find it hard to be completely positive about…

— Steven Wilson

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I…

— Steven Wilson

I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I…

— Steven Wilson

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I…

— Steven Wilson

What I do is I basically make records to please myself first and foremost, and so one of the most important things…

— Steven Wilson

One of the beauties about going solo was being able to start from scratch and say, 'What do I really want? What…

— Steven Wilson

I think anybody who likes Cardiacs, they tend to be quite evangelistic about them for obvious reasons. They're not a band you…

— Steven Wilson

I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince,…

— Steven Wilson

The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much…

— Steven Wilson

That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners…

— Steven Wilson