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Creativity Quote by Bootsy Collins

"Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space"

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Bootsy Collins turns “the wild” into both a lifestyle and a brand, then quietly admits the cost of living inside it. The repetition in “out in the wild, doing the wild thing” isn’t just playful funk-talk; it’s performance language, the kind that suggests he’s always onstage even when he’s technically off. Bootsy’s persona has long been bigger than the room - star-shaped glasses, cosmic swagger, the whole P-Funk mythology. Here, that mythology is recast as labor: being “out doing stuff” reads like perpetual motion demanded by touring, collaboration, and celebrity visibility.

The pivot comes with “I don’t really get a chance to just chill out until I come here.” That “until” carries the subtext of scarcity. Rest isn’t a baseline; it’s a privilege gated by place. “Creative space” lands as more than a studio. It’s a controlled environment where he gets to stop reacting to the world and start authoring it again. For a musician whose sound is built on groove - the discipline of staying inside a pocket - the idea of “chill” becomes essential, not indulgent. Groove requires stillness, attention, repetition; you can’t live at maximum spectacle forever and expect the bass line to stay deep.

Culturally, it’s a small rebuttal to the romantic story that artists are always “on,” always inspired by chaos. Bootsy’s saying the opposite: the magic happens when the noise drops, when the wildness gets translated into something you can shape, loop, and finally breathe inside.

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Collins, Bootsy. (2026, January 16). Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/usually-when-im-out-doing-stuff-im-just-out-in-87198/

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Collins, Bootsy. "Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/usually-when-im-out-doing-stuff-im-just-out-in-87198/.

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"Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/usually-when-im-out-doing-stuff-im-just-out-in-87198/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Bootsy Collins (born October 26, 1951) is a Musician from USA.

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