Creativity Quote by Mike McCready

There is a special kind of rock-band diplomacy in the phrase "run its natural course": it turns what could be a messy breakup into something that sounds like biology. Mike McCready isn’t raging against Epic here; he’s performing adulthood. The line does two jobs at once. It signals agency ("We decided") while laundering conflict through inevitability ("natural course"), a rhetorical move that lets a band exit without feeding the gossip economy that labels thrive on.

The clincher is the bureaucratic calm of "coincide with the fulfillment of our contract". That’s the artist translating emotion into paperwork, making the split feel less like a fight and more like timing. For musicians who came up in the major-label era, contracts weren’t just business; they were architecture: release schedules, marketing expectations, radio bets, creative friction. By foregrounding contractual completion, McCready frames the departure as professional, not impulsive - a clean handoff instead of a scandal.

"Resign" (almost certainly meaning "re-sign") adds a faintly human slip, the kind that reminds you this isn’t a PR robot. The subtext is a veteran band protecting its narrative: we’re not being dropped, we’re not imploding, we’re choosing the next chapter. In a culture where artists are often cast as either ungrateful rebels or obedient employees, McCready claims the rare middle position: grateful enough to be civil, seasoned enough to walk.