Creativity Quote by Melissa Auf der Maur

It reads like a contradiction, but it lands as a confession: the real fear isn’t the scary thing, it’s the loss of agency. “I don’t like to be afraid” is a preference stated almost politely, as if fear were an annoying roommate. Then she snaps the mask off with “I’m afraid every day, all the time” - not poetic fear, not an aesthetic gloom, but a constant baseline hum. The blunt repetition (“every day, all the time”) refuses the comforting arc where anxiety has a cause, a climax, a cure.

Coming from a musician, the line carries the backstage truth of a public life built on exposure. Performance culture sells fearlessness as part of the product: confidence onstage, certainty in interviews, a narrative of authenticity that somehow never includes panic. Auf der Maur punctures that mythology. The intent feels less like self-pity than self-reporting: if fear is continuous, then courage can’t be a one-time stunt. It has to be a practice.

The subtext is craft. Living with constant fear forces a choice: either let it govern you or learn to move while it’s present. That’s why the first clause matters. She’s not normalizing fear as edgy, desirable, or romantic; she’s naming it as unwanted, persistent, and still survivable. The line resonates because it describes what a lot of people experience quietly: not a crisis, but a climate. And in a culture that rewards curated bravery, admitting to the weather is its own kind of defiance.