Creativity Quote by Tina Weymouth

“Wild infancy” lands as both a provocation and a refusal of the usual rock-memoir script. Tina Weymouth isn’t romanticizing trauma so much as reclaiming the word “wild” from the way polite culture uses it to mean “broken,” “uncultured,” or “in need of correction.” Coming from a musician whose work in Talking Heads helped make nervousness, art-school stiffness, and groove coexist, the phrase reads like a thesis about where creativity actually comes from: not pristine beginnings, but messy ones that force invention.

The telling move is how she pairs “wild” with “deprived background.” Deprivation here isn’t just economic; it’s emotional, social, maybe even aesthetic - a lack of access that makes people improvise identities and tools. Weymouth’s intent feels less like pity and more like fascination with the self-taught energy that mainstream institutions try to sand down. “Starting out wild” suggests a pre-licensed state, before the world tells you which instincts are acceptable. It’s an argument for rawness as an origin story, and for art as a continuation of that rawness rather than a cure for it.

Culturally, it tracks with the post-punk era’s suspicion of virtuoso pedigree and its love of outsiders who sound like they built a language from scraps. In that light, “Wild Infancy” is also a critique of taste-making systems: the same gatekeepers who dismiss rough beginnings often mine them later for authenticity. Weymouth’s line pushes back, insisting the wildness isn’t a marketing texture; it’s a formative condition - and a source of power.