Creativity Quote by Daisy Berkowitz

“I just saw metal as another tool for me to use” lands with the cool pragmatism of someone who refuses to treat genre like a sacred identity. Daisy Berkowitz isn’t romanticizing metal as a lifestyle or a monolith; she’s reframing it as equipment. That single word, “tool,” demystifies a style that’s often policed by purists and mythologized as an all-or-nothing commitment. The line quietly punctures the gatekeeping that can surround heavy music: if metal is a tool, then it’s available to anyone with the skill and imagination to pick it up.

The intent feels both artistic and tactical. Metal becomes a set of textures - distortion, speed, aggression, theatricality - that can be deployed to solve expressive problems. Need a sharper edge? A bigger emotional container? A sound that makes vulnerability feel armored rather than exposed? Metal can do that. Berkowitz positions herself less as a “metal musician” than as a builder deciding which materials fit the job.

Subtext: autonomy. There’s a refusal to be defined by the scene’s expectations, and an implicit claim that heaviness isn’t owned by tradition, masculinity, or any one subculture. Coming from a musician navigating the late-80s/90s ecosystem where genre borders were actively contested, it reads like a survival strategy and an aesthetic manifesto. She’s not asking permission to belong; she’s asserting the right to use whatever language makes the song speak.