Creativity Quote by Stacie Orrico

Normal is the kind of word families use when theyre trying to stop a story from spilling out. Orricos line rejects it before anyone else can weaponize it: Weve never been your typical family. Its a quiet prebuttal, a way of asking for grace without begging for it. The you is doing a lot of work here. Its not just a listener; its the imagined crowd at school, in church, backstage, online the people who decide whats stable, respectable, or suspicious.

Then comes the reveal, delivered with almost disarming plainness: Weve moved a lot. The sentence lands like a suitcase thud. On paper, its logistical. In subtext, its a whole childhood: making friends fast, losing them faster, learning to read a room because you never get enough time to relax in it. Moving can be ambition (chasing work, opportunity) or damage control (running from debt, conflict, scandal). By not specifying, she keeps the dignity of the story while still letting the ache show.

As a pop musician, Orrico is also talking about the itinerant logic of performance: tour vans, temporary homes, identities that have to be portable. The quote works because it frames instability as biography, not pathology. It turns what could sound like an apology into a declaration of difference, and it hints that the real cost of being not typical isnt the moving its the constant audition for belonging wherever you land.