Creativity Quote by Marc Almond

There is a peculiar bravado in admitting danger and then refusing to dignify it with attention. Marc Almond’s line works because it’s not the macho “I fear nothing” posture; it’s the weary, practiced indifference of someone who’s learned that constant vigilance is its own form of captivity. Russia is framed as “quite a dangerous place sometimes” in the blandest possible terms, the understatement doing the heavy lifting. “Sometimes” implies a background hum of risk rather than a single, dramatic incident. The punch is the second clause: “but I never think about it.” That’s not denial so much as a survival tactic, the mental discipline required to keep moving through a place where unpredictability can be the atmosphere.

Coming from a musician - and Almond, specifically, an artist whose career has been entangled with transgressive aesthetics and intense publics - the quote reads like touring wisdom with a political edge. Performers travel with a portable identity: glamorous, foreign, potentially provocative. In Russia, that can mean adoration and exposure in the same breath, especially for artists associated with queer culture or countercultural postures. The subtext is that the danger isn’t only street crime; it’s the volatility of systems, the way a night out can become a headline, a misunderstanding can become a problem, attention can become surveillance.

“I never think about it” doubles as defiance and self-protection: refuse to let the myth of threat dictate your art, your itinerary, your sense of self. It’s a small sentence that smuggles in an entire philosophy of motion: if you want to keep crossing borders, you can’t live in the border guard’s imagination.