Nature & Animals Quote by Alannah Myles

The flex here isn’t poetic; it’s logistical. “I ride my horse at competition level” lands like a tossed-off fact, but it’s really a boundary line: don’t flatten me into one job, one persona, one “frontwoman” mythology. Coming from Alannah Myles, a musician whose public image was built in an era that loved turning women artists into tight, marketable archetypes, the sentence reads as a refusal to be neatly packaged.

The phrasing matters. “Competition level” is deliberately unglamorous, almost bureaucratic, and that’s the point. It shifts the conversation from vibe to discipline. Horse riding at that level implies money, time, bruises, early mornings, and a willingness to be judged in a system with rules you can’t charm your way around. It’s not “I love horses,” a Hallmark sentiment; it’s “I do the hard version.” In other words: I train.

There’s subtexted class and access, too. Equestrian sport quietly signals resources and a certain social world, which clashes interestingly with rock’s working-class swagger. Myles uses that clash as texture: the artist as someone with private rigor and private terrain, not just public performance.

In the broader celebrity context, it’s also a preemptive strike against the lazy interview question. You want a “fun fact”? Fine. Here’s one that forces you to take me seriously, because it’s about competence, not confession.