Creativity Quote by Boyd Rice

There is a particular kind of fatigue that comes from being “known” in public: not the work itself, but the ritual of explaining it to strangers who arrive with prewritten curiosity. Boyd Rice’s line lands because it treats the interview not as dialogue but as a loop, a cultural machine that converts a living artist into a reliable product. “25 or 30 years” isn’t just a time stamp; it’s an indictment of how long a persona can be made to perform the same version of itself on demand.

“More often than not” does quiet, telling work. He’s conceding he’s participated, even enabled it. That phrasing suggests resignation more than outrage: he’s not shocked by the media’s repetition, he’s bored by it. The Latin punchline, “ad nauseum,” is a small flourish of contempt - not highbrow so much as dismissive. He’s signaling that the tedium is so complete it’s almost bodily, the mind sickened by the predictability of the exchange.

Context matters because Rice’s career sits in subcultural art worlds that thrive on provocation, myth, and controversy - precisely the things journalists love to flatten into a few evergreen prompts. The subtext: you’re not really interviewing me, you’re interviewing the character you already decided I am. The intent is defensive but also strategic. By naming the repetition, he preemptively drains the interview of its power, repositioning himself as the only party aware of the script - and therefore, the only one still capable of changing it.