Creativity Quote by Jon Crosby

Crosby’s line is doing the humble-brag two-step that musicians have to master in the internet age: acknowledge the weirdness of being misunderstood, then immediately deflate your own importance before anyone else can. The opening admits a genuine anxiety - “scary and…confusing” isn’t the language of cool detachment. It’s the private fear underneath any artist with a devoted audience: if you can’t map what listeners see in you, you start wondering whether your work has a meaning you never authored, or whether you’ve lost the ability to read the room entirely.

Then he pivots, and that pivot is the tell. By invoking his younger self obsessing over “so many other bands,” he reframes misunderstanding as a normal feature of fandom rather than a personal failure. The subtext is generous: he’s validating the projection at the heart of music culture, where the listener’s biography often does as much composing as the musician. People “coming from” somewhere matters to him, but he accepts that their somewhere might not match his.

The casual shrug - “It’s not really a big deal” - is less dismissal than pressure-release valve. It’s Crosby insulating himself from the demand for definitive explanations, the kind that turn songs into TED Talks and artists into customer-service reps. The intent is to keep the work porous: let listeners misread, overread, and find themselves anyway, while the artist refuses the trap of becoming the final authority on their own mystique.