Creativity Quote by Alan Price

Price is doing something deliciously unrock-star: he’s refusing the myth-making machinery in real time. Coming from a musician who spent decades being “explained” by critics, documentaries, and nostalgia industries, the line reads like a small act of self-defense. “One shouldn’t dig too deeply” isn’t anti-intellectual so much as anti-forensics. It’s a warning that our appetite for hidden meaning can turn art into a crime scene: every lyric treated as evidence, every career move as motive, every silence as confession.

The sly pivot - “It’s silly to say that with a journalist” - acknowledges the social script. Journalists are paid to excavate. Subjects are expected to cooperate with the excavation by supplying tidy origin stories and quotable “truths.” Price punctures that contract. He’s not denying that feelings are real; he’s denying that they always resolve into a single, reportable fact. Sometimes the “why” behind a song, a split, or a moment on stage is just a thicket of half-remembered impulses, luck, fatigue, ego, timing.

The most radical phrase is “not a truth to be found.” Not “the truth is complicated” - “there may be no truth” in the sense that people mean when they demand it. It’s a quiet critique of the journalist’s bias toward narrative closure, and a musician’s insistence that ambiguity isn’t a failure of reporting. It’s often the honest shape of lived experience.