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Creativity Quote by Andrea Corr

"We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings"

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Andrea Corr’s line lands like a gentle protest against the stories we’re trained to live by: the myth of the singular “queen,” the one anointed figure with “the wings” who rises above the swarm. By reaching for ants - a metaphor so ordinary it’s almost dismissible - she makes the point sharper. Ants are tireless, communal, replaceable in the way modern life can make people feel: commuting, grinding, optimizing, repeating. The image is unglamorous on purpose. It drags “success” out of the spotlight and back into the dirt where most of us actually operate.

The intent isn’t to flatten human difference into bland sameness; it’s to puncture hierarchy. “We’re all the same” is less a claim about personality than about appetite: security, love, recognition, a little peace. Corr’s insistence - “we all want the same thing” repeated twice - mimics the loop of consumer culture itself, where desire is constantly rehearsed and redirected. The twist is that she refuses the comforting narrative that our wanting can be solved by elevating a single hero. No queen with wings means no savior, no flawless frontwoman, no CEO-genius who validates everyone else’s labor.

Coming from a musician, there’s a sly self-awareness here. Pop culture thrives on coronations: divas, icons, chosen ones. Corr is stepping slightly off the pedestal and pointing at the machinery beneath it, suggesting the real drama isn’t individual ascent but shared restlessness - and the quiet dignity of admitting we’re in it together.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Corr, Andrea. (2026, January 15). We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-all-the-same-we-all-want-the-same-thing-in-166942/

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Corr, Andrea. "We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-all-the-same-we-all-want-the-same-thing-in-166942/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-all-the-same-we-all-want-the-same-thing-in-166942/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Andrea Corr (born May 17, 1974) is a Musician from Ireland.

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