Creativity Quote by Andrew Eldritch

Glamour dies on a timetable, and Andrew Eldritch is counting the minutes. The line punctures the myth of the touring musician as pure spectacle - that tidy montage of lights, sweat, and adoration - by foregrounding the long, unmarketable hours that actually define the work. He’s not complaining for sport; he’s drawing a boundary between consent and enthusiasm. Yes, he signed up. No, that doesn’t mean he owes anyone a smile about the parts that grind him down.

The repetition of “five hours” is the tell. It’s not a precise itinerary so much as a drumbeat of tedium, a way of making time feel heavy and stupid. By placing “hour and a half on stage” against the bureaucratic purgatory of transit and press, Eldritch flips the ratio that fans instinctively imagine. The show is the tip; the waiting is the job. That imbalance also gestures at what touring does to a person: it atomizes your life into dead zones where you’re neither living nor creating, just being processed.

Coming from Eldritch - famously prickly, meticulous, resistant to rock’s expected gratitude - the quote reads like a refusal of compulsory appreciation. “Part of the job” is the language of professionalism; “I don’t have to like it” is the language of survival. It’s a small act of honesty in an industry that sells passion as a product, even when the machine running underneath it is exhaustion.