Creativity Quote by Andrew Eldritch

There is a quiet provocation in how flat this sounds. Andrew Eldritch, the famously guarded architect of The Sisters of Mercy, doesn’t mythologize Hamburg or dress it up as a “second chance.” He reaches for the most ordinary phrase in the exile handbook: “I just feel at home.” Coming from a musician whose public persona tends toward distance and control, that plainness reads like a deliberate refusal to perform intimacy on demand.

The intent is less travelogue than boundary-setting. Eldritch has spent decades being treated as a gothic emblem rather than a person; locating “home” in Hamburg is a way to reassert authorship over his own narrative. It also carries a neat, almost punk subtext: home isn’t bloodline or birthplace, it’s infrastructure. Hamburg is a working port city with a hard-edged music history and a pragmatic temperament, the kind of place where you can disappear in plain sight while still feeling plugged into culture. For a frontman who has long resisted the nostalgia machine, it’s a strategic perch.

Context matters: ten years is long enough to stop being a romantic fling with a city and start being a chosen identity. The line implies stability without sentimentality, belonging without surrender. It’s a small sentence that quietly rejects the idea that artists must be perpetually rootless, and it does it in the most Eldritch way possible: by underplaying the drama until the choice feels inevitable.