Steven Wilson Quotes

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

'Last Man' is different from anything I've ever seen or done.

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.