Creativity Quote by Julian Lennon

Julian Lennon’s “I haven’t regretted the decision - yet!” lands like a grin you can hear through the punctuation. On paper it’s a casual update about entrepreneurship. In practice it’s a musician’s way of deflating the grand mythology that always tries to attach itself to his name: legacy, destiny, the Lennon inheritance. The first sentence gestures at agency - “always thought of starting my own record company” - a bid to be read as a builder, not a footnote. Then the second sentence punctures any whiff of self-importance with a timed bit of gallows humor.

The subtext is the real action: he knows what a record company can do to an artist because he grew up adjacent to the most mythologized band in modern music, and because the industry is famous for turning “dreams” into overhead. “Yet” is doing heavy lifting. It’s a wink at the volatility of music economics, the stress of control and responsibility, the possibility that today’s empowered creator becomes tomorrow’s exhausted executive. It’s also a pre-emptive strike against the expectation that he should either be triumphantly confident or publicly tortured.

Culturally, it sits in that familiar late-20th/early-21st-century musician pivot: artists trying to reclaim ownership after decades of label dominance. Lennon’s joke acknowledges the romance of independence while quietly admitting how fragile it is. He’s selling self-determination, but keeping the receipt ready.