Creativity Quote by Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur’s line lands like a shrug that’s secretly a flag planted in the ground. “For sure” isn’t just emphasis; it’s a small defensive move against a culture that constantly invites women in rock to qualify themselves, soften themselves, or treat their presence as a temporary cameo. She’s not offering a quirky fun fact. She’s naming an identity marker that reads instantly onstage and in press photos, then using it to claim space in an industry that loves “types” but rarely lets the person inside the type control the narrative.

The redhead detail matters because it’s both trivial and loaded. Hair color is the kind of visual shorthand music media has historically fixated on when talking about women: the look becomes the headline, the sound becomes the footnote. Auf der Maur flips that dynamic. By foregrounding the aesthetic label herself, she takes it out of the hands of photographers, gatekeepers, and lazy copy. She turns what could be objectifying into something like self-authored branding.

“There aren’t that many of us out there in music” sounds light, but the subtext is about rarity economics: attention follows scarcity. She’s acknowledging the marketplace logic of pop culture - the way difference gets packaged - while also hinting at isolation. Being “one of the few” can be power, but it can also mean you’re constantly on display, asked to stand in for an entire category. The intent is simple: to be seen on her own terms, before someone else narrates her.