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

Steven Wilson

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The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance of having the music transcend the times. If you make them very political and very topical, it's going to date very quickly.

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Every time the mainstream media talk about progressive rock, they wheel out a clip of Rick Wakeman in a cape. For me, it's one of the most ambitious forms of music. The problem is that when it doesn't work, you end up with Emerson, Lake and Palmer doing symphonies with 60-piece orchestras and revolving pianos, which I think is ridiculous as well.

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I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the s... by Steven Wilson

I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists.

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I grew up with vinyl records and remember the pleasure and the kind of buzz that I got from buying a beautiful vinyl record with the sleeve and the lyrics - all that kind of tactile experience that you could get from an old vinyl record.

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I've always been the sort of person who likes to look forward and... by Steven Wilson

I've always been the sort of person who likes to look forward and live in the present.

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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.

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The city can be the loneliest place of all. by Steven Wilson

The city can be the loneliest place of all.

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You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop. by Steven Wilson

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

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I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universall... by Steven Wilson

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

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It's one thing to fail with something you utterly believe in, but to fail with something you don't believe in? You just feel so sordid.

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Certainly for some time, people used to think of my solo career as somehow a side project to Porcupine Tree. No. If anything, the opposite would now have to be the case.

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