Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations,

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.