Creativity Quote by Peter Hook

Hook’s line lands like a backstage confession, the kind musicians rarely get credit for making without irony. “Away forever” isn’t just touring; it’s the seductive idea of escape as a permanent lifestyle, the myth that motion equals meaning. He punctures that fantasy with a blunt pivot: you don’t actually want exile. You want “normal,” the word rock culture treats like an insult until you’ve lived long enough to understand it as shelter.

The intent feels less like complaint than boundary-setting. Hook is naming the psychological whiplash of a life built on peaks: shows, travel, adulation, the constant renewal of self through noise and novelty. That life can look like freedom from the outside, but it also demands a kind of vanishing act from the ordinary structures that keep people intact - routines, relationships, the slow accumulation of days that don’t need to be performed.

The subtext is generational and class-aware, too. Coming out of postwar Northern England and into bands that helped define post-punk’s austerity and ambition, Hook carries a realism that resists the glamorous script of “forever on the road.” “Normal life” isn’t surrender; it’s reclaiming autonomy from an industry that rewards absence: be away, be available, be marketable, don’t stop moving.

What makes the line work is its quiet refusal to romanticize either side. He doesn’t say fame ruined him, or that domesticity saved him. He just admits the most human truth in a culture built on extremes: even the people who can leave often don’t want to leave for good.