Creativity Quote by Glenn Danzig

Danzig’s line is funny in the way a slammed door is funny: blunt, repetitive, and completely uninterested in smoothing itself out for company. “I was bringing my attitude as a regular person” is a tiny manifesto against the myth that artists must arrive as curated brands. He’s not performing mystique here; he’s insisting the opposite. The doubled “attitude” loops like a punk riff, less an explanation than a refusal to explain. If you don’t like it, that’s the point.

The specific intent reads like self-defense after being told, implicitly, to behave: play the room, respect the industry, soften the edges. Danzig answers with a tautology that functions as a boundary. He’s saying: I’m not switching into “celebrity mode,” and I’m not laundering my personality into palatable professionalism. Calling himself a “regular person” is a strategic move too. It denies the special pleading of rock stardom while keeping the right to be difficult. Regular people have attitudes; they’re just not usually punished for it under stage lights.

The subtext is about authenticity, but not the Instagram kind. It’s authenticity as stubbornness, as self-mythology built from consistency: the same guy onstage, backstage, and in conflict. Contextually, it fits Danzig’s whole cultural role as both metal icon and perpetual antagonist, a figure who treats interviews and expectations like obstacles to be shoulder-checked. The quote works because it’s anti-PR: a shrug that dares you to call it a strategy.