Creativity Quote by Billy Sherwood

Restlessness hides inside the casual shrug of that sentence. “Very inspired” sounds like a press-friendly adjective, but the real signal is the phrase “just keep playing” - a musician’s version of refusing to come down. After a tour, most bands talk about recovery, distance, the need to “recharge.” Sherwood frames the opposite impulse: momentum as necessity, music as appetite.

Then comes the punchline: “so we went to Canada.” It lands with a dry, road-worn humor, like the logical next step in a life where geography exists mainly as a routing problem. Canada isn’t romanticized; it’s practical, proximate, and real. You can hear the implied calculus: new rooms, new crowds, new nights, without the full stop that kills the vibe. It’s also an understated reminder of how touring musicians experience borders - not as abstractions, but as doors that may or may not open when the van pulls up.

The subtext is craft over mythology. Sherwood isn’t selling inspiration as lightning; he’s describing it as stamina, the kind you protect by staying in motion. There’s a cultural context here too: rock and prog scenes that survive on live circuits, where playing is both livelihood and identity maintenance. The line resists the grand narrative of the “album cycle” and replaces it with something more honest: the band felt good, the engine was warm, and the only sensible thing was to drive somewhere else and do it again.