Creativity Quote by Lara St. John

The line lands with the offhand punch of a backstage anecdote, except the backstage is an emergency room and the prop is hydrogen peroxide. St. John’s “Naturally” is doing sly work: it treats something plainly alarming as if it were an ordinary quirk of touring life, a deadpan shrug that signals control. The comedy is not there to trivialize danger so much as to reclaim authorship over it. If you can narrate your own crisis with timing, you’re not just a patient; you’re still the storyteller.

Calling herself “a bit of a curiosity” flips the expected power dynamic. Hospitals classify, triage, and standardize; St. John makes a category out of herself that doesn’t exist in their manuals. There’s a musician’s sensibility in that phrasing - being “the first” reads like a strange kind of debut, an accidental premiere. It’s also a subtle critique of how institutions metabolize human vulnerability: novelty becomes a case study, a talking point, something that gets filed and repeated.

The subtext hums with a familiar tension in performance culture: bodies are instruments until they fail, then they’re inconveniences. By presenting the incident as the staff’s first, she hints at isolation - the eerie feeling of being uncharted territory when you most want a script. The humor is a pressure valve, but it’s also a quiet indictment: even catastrophe gets processed as spectacle, and she’s self-aware enough to name it before anyone else can.