Time & Perspective Quote by Rupert Holmes

Restlessness is doing double duty here: it reads like a humblebrag, but it’s also an artist’s manifesto disguised as small talk. Rupert Holmes frames his career less as a ladder climb than as a series of curiosity-driven genre hops, and that choice matters. In an industry that loves branding - the one thing you’re “known for” - he’s defending the generalist’s life as a coherent identity. “Most everything” isn’t scattershot; it’s an argument that variety is the point, not a detour.

The sharpest line is about “the first time” in a new form. Holmes is telling you novelty isn’t a gimmick; it’s a diagnostic tool. Beginners’ eyes make the medium legible. You notice the hidden rules, the textures, the constraints that veterans stop seeing. He’s describing a creative high: the moment when craft turns into discovery, when the medium itself becomes the collaborator. That’s a quietly subversive stance in a culture that treats mastery as staying put and repeating what sells.

Then comes the tell: “very busy,” “very few vacations.” It lands like a wink and a warning. Productivity is presented as consequence, not virtue, but the subtext is the familiar bargain of creative work - the work becomes your time off, and the excitement of the new form can blur into an inability to stop. It’s both a celebration of artistic appetite and a candid admission of what that appetite costs.