Creativity Quote by Brody Armstrong

Armstrong is cutting through the parasocial fog that follows any band with a public narrative. The line is less a plea for privacy than a refusal to let outside storylines become the story. When she says, "It's not important", she’s drawing a hard boundary between the internal mechanics of making music and the external appetite for drama: who’s mad at whom, who’s really in charge, what a lyric is "about". In rock culture, those questions often get treated like investigative journalism. Armstrong demotes them to what they are: crowd-sourced fan fiction with better lighting.

The phrasing matters. "How the band functions" sounds almost corporate, like she’s talking about an organization people feel entitled to audit. That’s the point: fame turns a creative unit into a public institution, and institutions invite scrutiny. Her pushback isn’t denial; it’s re-centering. The work is the work, and the rest is noise.

"A lot of people project stuff on you" names the real mechanism: audiences don’t just interpret; they use artists as screens for their own anxieties and desires. Especially for women fronting loud bands, projection arrives preloaded with assumptions about temperament, sexuality, and "authenticity". The calm coda - "but that's okay" - is the most strategic part. It’s not surrender. It’s emotional judo: acknowledging the inevitability of projection while starving it of conflict, the very fuel gossip economies run on.