Creativity Quote by Kathy Valentine

She’s puncturing the fan fantasy that a band is a perpetual sleepover of best friends. By reaching for “family,” Kathy Valentine grabs the warmest metaphor in the pop toolkit, then immediately undercuts it with the mundane logistics of adulthood: lunch plans, movies, separate lives. That push-pull is the point. “Family” signals loyalty, shared history, and an unbreakable bond; the follow-up insists on boundaries, distance, and the unglamorous truth that closeness doesn’t require constant togetherness.

The phrasing is doing quiet reputational work. “Kind of like” softens the claim, wary of overstating intimacy in a culture that punishes women in bands for either being too emotional (catty, dramatic) or not emotional enough (cold, transactional). The specificity of “fully grown adult women” reads like a corrective to how female groups are often infantilized in coverage - framed as girlfriends, dolls, or a “girl gang” rather than professionals running long careers. She’s telling you: we have schedules, responsibilities, and separate identities; the relationship survives because it’s sturdy, not because it’s cute.

Contextually, it fits the reality of long-running acts: decades of touring, recording, hiatuses, reunions, and legal/business pressures. “Family” here isn’t a Hallmark card; it’s a recognition that you can be bound to people you don’t see daily, sometimes don’t even like daily, yet still show up when it counts. That’s the adult version of solidarity - less Instagrammable, more durable.