Creativity Quote by Stephan Jenkins

Stephan Jenkins is basically staking out a vibe: give me the living, not the polished. “People who have a pulse” sounds like a joke at first - the minimum requirement for being interesting is not being dead - but that’s the point. He’s mocking the social default of emotional sedation: the hyper-managed persona, the carefully ironic distance, the cool that reads like low blood pressure. In one line, he turns “basic humanity” into a scarce resource.

The second half does the real work. “Aren’t afraid to show it” shifts the bar from having feelings to risking them in public. That’s a musician’s tell. Rock culture, especially in the post-grunge, alt-radio era Jenkins came up in, sells authenticity while constantly punishing it: be raw, but not messy; be vulnerable, but never needy; be intense, but still marketable. The quote reads like a refusal of that bargain. He’s not praising sincerity as a moral virtue so much as an aesthetic and relational preference: give me the cracked voice, the sweaty honesty, the obvious want.

There’s also a flirtation in the phrasing. “Pulse” is physical, intimate, a little horny; it implies chemistry, urgency, the body as truth serum. Jenkins is signaling attraction to people who don’t hide behind composure - the ones who blush, rage, laugh too loud, care too much. Subtext: numbness is the real pose, and he’s not buying it.