Creativity Quote by Bobby Sherman

There’s something charmingly deflationary about this line: it takes the glamour object (the cigar, shorthand for swagger, vice, and grown-man status) and swaps it for the most banal explanation possible. Bobby Sherman doesn’t frame himself as morally superior or health-obsessed. He just shrugs: not my thing, never was. That casualness is the point. It’s a refusal to perform the expected accessories of fame.

Coming from a musician who functioned as a teen-idol brand in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the quote reads like a small act of image management - and a quiet rebellion against it. Cigars are often a prop in the celebrity toolkit: something you hold to look older, tougher, more dangerous, more in control. Sherman’s phrasing, especially “part of my agenda,” sounds almost comically corporate, like he’s describing his day planner rather than a habit. That choice punctures the myth that charisma must be packaged with self-destruction.

The subtext is also about boundaries. Fans and interviewers tend to treat pop figures like open dossiers: what do you do backstage, what’s your vice, what’s your edge? Sherman answers without feeding the machine. He doesn’t offer a substitute temptation, doesn’t turn it into a confession, doesn’t romanticize abstention. In an era when rock authenticity was increasingly coded as excess, he positions himself as functional, maybe even deliberately un-mysterious. The intent isn’t to be profound; it’s to stay intact.