Creativity Quote by Jerry Only

Four words that land like a brick in a scene that usually rewards irony. Coming from Jerry Only, the longtime backbone of the Misfits, "I believe in God" reads less like a Hallmark confession than a deliberate act of cultural friction: a punk lifer voicing something uncool on purpose, daring the audience to decide whether sincerity is more transgressive than shock.

Only’s career has been built inside a cartoon cathedral of skulls, camp horror, and blasphemous aesthetics. The Misfits’ imagery flirts with sacrilege because it looks good on a T-shirt and because it needles polite society. Dropping a plain-spoken declaration of faith in that context flips the script. The subtext is not "I’m saved"; it’s "I’m not obligated to perform your expectations of rebellion". Punk, at its sharpest, has always been a fight over who gets to define authenticity. Only uses the simplest sentence possible to reclaim that territory.

There’s also an intent to humanize a persona that’s often been reduced to iconography. "I believe in God" is stubbornly unpoetic: no qualifiers, no edgy wink, no theological footnotes. That bluntness works rhetorically because it refuses to negotiate. It’s a boundary line drawn in public.

Culturally, it lands in an era where belief is often treated as either private branding or political threat. Only’s statement sidesteps both. In a genre famous for shouting, the quiet certainty becomes the provocation.