Faith & Spirit Quote by David Crosby

Pleasure, in Crosby's mouth, always comes with a siren behind it. The line lands because it frames performance not as labor but as a borderline offense: he's "having so much fun" it feels like getting away with something. That "almost guilty" is doing double duty. On the surface it's a grin, a backstage confession to the audience: can you believe they let me do this for a living? Underneath, it's a man whose life was repeatedly policed by consequences - addiction, arrests, public scandal, the kind of hard-earned self-knowledge that makes joy feel suspicious.

The joke is the imagined raid: "I hope no one comes and busts me for this". It borrows the language of drugs and delinquency to describe music, which is exactly the Crosby worldview. For a generation that treated rock as both art and illicit thrill, the stage becomes the last safe place to feel the old rush without the crash. It's also a subtle flex: if your craft still feels illegal, you're probably still dangerous, still alive, still capable of surprise.

Context matters because Crosby wasn't just a harmony guy; he was a cautionary tale who kept returning to the microphone. The line suggests a late-career astonishment that he gets to be here at all - not in a pious, redemption-narrative way, but in a streetwise one. He doesn't promise he's cured. He just admits that, for a few songs, the chase finally pays without collecting.