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Creativity Quote by Kylie Minogue

"Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed"

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Homesickness, but with a touring schedule stapled to it. Minogue opens by invoking a kind of public intimacy: "Everyone knows" isn’t just emphasis, it’s a reminder that her relationship to Australia is part of her brand mythology, a long-running storyline fans are meant to recognize on sight. She’s not merely stating affection; she’s reaffirming membership. For an artist who built a significant chunk of her career offshore, the line works like a passport stamp: yes, I left, but I’m still yours.

The second sentence does the real work. "I try to get back here as much as I can" frames return as effort, not convenience. It quietly inoculates her against the suspicion that success equals distance. Then comes the deflating clause: "but normally it’s for work". That "but" punctures the fantasy of the leisurely homecoming and replaces it with the unglamorous mechanics of pop stardom: airports, obligations, time zones.

The list - "in and out and jetlagged and stressed" - is conversational, almost breathless. It’s how you talk when you’re tired and trying to make a complex feeling sound simple. The subtext is that fame doesn’t erase longing; it industrializes it. Home becomes a stopover, not a sanctuary. In a culture that expects celebrities to be either endlessly grateful or endlessly detached, Minogue threads the needle: sincere attachment, tempered by the reality that her life runs on logistics.

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Kylie Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is a Musician from Australia.

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