Creativity Quote by Max Cannon

“People get really caught up in their own trips” lands like a half-sigh from someone who’s watched the same social drama loop a thousand times. Coming from an artist, it reads less like a scolding than a studio note: a reminder that the loudest story in the room is usually the one someone is telling themselves.

The phrasing matters. “Caught up” suggests motion and momentum, not malice. Nobody wakes up intending to be self-absorbed; they get snagged. And “their own trips” is doing double duty. It nods to the psychedelic register (ego spirals, private revelations, paranoia dressed up as insight), but it also hits everyday life: career quests, grievance arcs, wellness routines, identity performances, the little mythologies we curate on social media and then mistake for reality. “Trip” is slang that softens the critique. Cannon doesn’t call it narcissism; he calls it a trip, something temporary, weird, maybe even interesting, but not necessarily true.

Subtext: your perception is not the world, it’s a filter with a soundtrack. The line gently punctures the modern obsession with interiority - the idea that feeling something intensely automatically makes it meaningful or correct. It’s also an artist’s survival tactic. In creative scenes, people’s “trips” become brands, and brands become cages. Cannon’s comment pushes against that: step outside the loop, notice the room, make something that isn’t just autobiography with better lighting.