Creativity Quote by Steve Brown

"I think we were always humble" is the kind of modesty line that does double duty: it reassures the audience and quietly manages the legend. Coming from a musician, it reads less like a character report and more like a brand decision. The key word is "always" - a soft, totalizing claim that edits out the messy middle where success tends to inflate egos, entourages, and expectations. It doesn’t deny fame; it domesticates it.

The hedge up front, "I think", matters too. It’s not courtroom certainty; it’s conversational, almost shruggy. That looseness signals sincerity while giving the speaker room to be human about memory. In pop culture, humility is a high-status virtue: you can only afford to be "humble" when the world is already treating you like you’re important. So the line works as a defense against the most predictable critique of any ascendant act: that they got big and got weird.

There’s also a collective pronoun doing quiet work. "We" protects the speaker from sounding self-congratulatory and turns humility into a shared ethic - a band myth, not an individual halo. It invites fans to feel like they were part of something grounded, even as the career story likely involves spotlight, money, and ego checks. The subtext is: we didn’t betray the original vibe. In an industry that thrives on reinvention and spectacle, claiming consistent humility is a way to promise continuity - and to keep the audience’s trust while the scale changes.