Creativity Quote by Danielle Dax

“I think cat’s are fantastic” lands less like a thesis statement than a quick flare of personality, the kind musicians drop in interviews to signal taste without building a whole ideology around it. Coming from Danielle Dax - an artist associated with post-punk’s artier, stranger edges - the line reads as a small act of alignment: cats as avatar, cats as aesthetic.

Cats carry a loaded cultural shorthand. They’re self-possessed, hard to train, affectionate on their own terms. Saying they’re “fantastic” isn’t just pet talk; it’s a soft endorsement of independence and a certain elegant refusal to perform. For a musician, that subtext matters. It’s a way of claiming kinship with a creature that doesn’t beg for applause, doesn’t hustle for approval, and doesn’t apologize for being aloof. In scenes that valorize authenticity while constantly demanding visibility, the cat becomes a quiet rebuke to the needy, fan-service version of celebrity.

The phrasing is also telling. “I think” makes it deliberately low-stakes - opinion, not manifesto. That modesty functions as anti-branding, a shrug that can feel more trustworthy than a carefully engineered persona. Even the grammatical slip (“cat’s”) adds to the effect: unpolished, offhand, human. In a culture where artists are coached into talking points, the charm here is its refusal to be grand. The point isn’t that cats are objectively great; it’s that Dax is comfortable liking what she likes, plainly, and letting the weirdness stand.