It’s an imagining, I suppose, of a future in which the forces that are in charge of the world destroy anything that they consider useless or that doesn’t make money. Which I feel is the way our culture is heading right now and anything that doesn’t make large profit is seemingly sneered at and dismissed as unimportant, like artists who are not as massive as Katy Perry. They’re not considered as valuable an artist. To me, I feel we cannot possibly value things by profit margins or by the size or success of something. I think something that’s small and quiet is as valuable as something that’s large and loud. So it’s an imagining of the future where the authorities destroy anything that doesn’t make large amounts of money.
- Shirley Manson, Forbes