Creativity Quote by Kim Deal

Rock mythmaking usually runs on the idea that mess equals authenticity. Kim Deal punctures that romance with a line that sounds like backstage gossip but lands like a cultural diagnosis: the moment your hero is literally on his knees begging you not to believe in the thing you came to worship.

“Don’t trust in Guided By Voices” isn’t a consumer warning; it’s a cracked benediction. Guided By Voices built a whole aesthetic on charming disarray - lo-fi, beer-sweat camaraderie, the sense that the songs are so good they can survive anything, including the band. Deal’s question to her friend (“You were there… was it embarrassing, was it sad?”) reveals the real anxiety underneath the sloppiness: when does “shambolic” stop reading as liberated and start reading as deteriorating? She’s not policing technique so much as monitoring the emotional contract between band and audience.

The quote’s power comes from its triangulation. There’s Bob (Pollard) in a compromised posture, there’s the listener-friend as witness, and there’s Deal as the skeptical translator. She’s asking for a vibe check, but also for moral clarity: did the night feel like communal chaos, or like watching someone unravel in public?

Coming from Deal - a musician who’s lived inside the machinery of indie credibility - the tone isn’t prissy. It’s protective, even mournful. The subtext is that fandom can become enabling, and that “trust” is the most dangerous word you can attach to a band built on glorious, strategic unreliability.