Creativity Quote by Siobhan Fahey

There’s a hard, glittering honesty in that line: belonging isn’t framed as a missing puzzle piece, but as an appetite that never stops hungering. “Craved” does a lot of work. It’s bodily, almost embarrassing in its neediness, which makes the second half hit like a door slammed on your own fingers. Fahey doesn’t romanticize outsiderdom; she stages it as a lifelong tension between desire and verdict.

The phrasing matters: “to belong to somewhere” is slightly off-kilter, as if even the grammar can’t find a home. Not “belong somewhere,” but “belong to” - like a place is an owner, or an institution you submit to. That small preposition turns belonging into a power relationship. The last clause, “never have and never will,” reads less like melodrama than an experienced refusal to keep auditioning for acceptance. It’s self-protection, sharpened into certainty.

In the context of pop music - where identity is both a brand and a battlefield - the statement lands as an anti-origin story. Fahey’s career (from glossy, controlled pop to darker, more idiosyncratic projects) embodies someone moving through scenes without fully converting into them. It’s a quiet indictment of how “fitting in” often demands a kind of self-erasure, especially for women whose image is treated as communal property.

The subtext isn’t just alienation; it’s authorship. If you “never will” belong, you stop waiting for the room to open up and start building a different room entirely.