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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
