Creativity Quote by Todd Rundgren

Rundgren’s line lands with the weary tenderness of someone who’s watched idealism get chewed up by the industry and still can’t quite dismiss it. “There are still people” is the tell: it implies a world where belief has become scarce, even a little embarrassing, something you have to defend by pointing to its remaining holdouts. The quote isn’t pitching optimism so much as marveling at its persistence.

The phrasing does two things at once. “Wake up every day believing it’s possible” frames faith as a daily practice, not a personality trait. That’s musician logic: the song doesn’t exist because you’re inspired once; it exists because you return to the work when you’re uninspired, broke, or ignored. Then he escalates to “invest their whole selves,” a line that reads like admiration and warning in the same breath. In pop culture, total investment is romanticized, but Rundgren knows it’s also how you get exploited: by labels, by audiences, by the myth that passion should replace compensation.

Context matters here because Rundgren’s career has always flirted with the utopian edge of rock: studio experimentation, DIY control, early tech-forward moves, a belief that the next tool or the next record could change the relationship between artist and listener. The subtext is that “possible” isn’t just personal success; it’s the bigger dream that art can still be a meaningful project, not merely content. He’s acknowledging the believers as a dwindling species, and quietly asking whether we’re still willing to be one of them.