...people call me workaholic a lot, because a do a lot of work, a produce solo music. I think part of that, part of that driving, part of that motivation, comes from the fear of mortality, the idea that one day, soon, sometime in the next fifty years, I’m gonna cease to exist. That’s I think about a lot, but of course it’s also in the back of my mind when I write any song.
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There‘s something slightly disturbing about people who create extraordinary music. It‘s almost like were you tapping into part of their mind which other people don‘t tap into. This is my theory. So there is a very thin line, if you look at the great artists, someone like Picasso or Mozart. They are on the verge of insanity, on the verge of being extremely disturbed, psychopathic people. But in a way they‘ve chosen to channel those impulses into creativity. I guess that there is a very thin line between channelling them in creativity and destruction.
Fuente: PDF, No Fear of a Blank Planet, Voyage PT, 13 de noviembre de 2007, 24 de julio de 2016, Uwe, Häberle, Claudia, Ritcher, Stuttgart, Alemania, inglés http://www.voyage-pt.de/VPT-SWInterview20071113-English.pdf,
I think part of the artist’s responsibility is to, in a way, expose themselves. And when you do that, I think you’re holding up a mirror to the people who listen to your music. That mirror is of course an image of yourself, but you’re asking the people that listen to the music to see if they recognize themselves when they look in that mirror.
Fuente: Steven Wilson: ‘Being an Artist is All About Being Selfish’, Steven Wilson: 'Ser un artista es completamente sobre ser egoísta', Nabeela, Shaikh, 3 de febrero de 2016, Rolling Stone India, 24 de julio de 2016, inglés http://rollingstoneindia.com/steven-wilson-rolling-stone-india-interview/,