Creativity Quote by Colin Greenwood

It lands like a shrug, but it’s really a quiet rebuke to a whole culture of preemptive self-correction. “There’s no point apologizing about where you come from” rejects the reflex so many artists develop: sanding off their accent, downplaying their hometown, disowning the ordinary bits of their biography so they can be taken “seriously.” Greenwood’s phrasing matters. “No point” isn’t moralizing; it’s pragmatic. Apology is framed as wasted motion, an energy sink that buys you neither authenticity nor entry into whatever gatekept cool you’re chasing.

Coming from Colin Greenwood, that pragmatism reads as a defense of Radiohead’s origin story: a band that emerged from a specific, not-especially-mythic place (middle-class Oxfordshire) and still built a global language out of it. The subtext is about class and taste as much as geography. In British culture especially, “where you come from” doubles as a coded question about pedigree, money, and whether you’re allowed to speak with authority. Apologizing becomes a kind of social tax: you pay it to signal you know your rank.

The line also pushes back against the modern demand for “relatability” on one side and “authenticity” on the other. Both can become traps. Greenwood isn’t claiming origins don’t shape you; he’s refusing to let them function as a disclaimer. The most subversive move is treating background as a fact, not a confession.