Creativity Quote by Dave Rowntree

There’s a sly, almost throwaway practicality to Rowntree’s line, and that’s exactly why it lands. A touring musician is supposed to be living in neon: late nights, loud rooms, endless adrenaline. Instead he’s talking about what’s easy to watch. The glamour gets punctured by logistics.

“Animation” here isn’t framed as an art form that demands reverence; it’s treated like the ideal road companion, the most portable kind of story. Subtext: tour life is fragmented. You’re catching culture in slivers between soundcheck and the next drive, on small screens, in bad light, half-tired. Live-action can feel tethered to realism and continuity; animation tolerates interruption. It’s visually legible, tonally elastic, and often built in episodes or arcs that survive distraction. Even when it’s serious, it’s designed, not merely captured, which can make it feel cleaner and easier to drop into when your own environment is chaos.

There’s also a quiet admission of emotional need. Tour is overstimulation with pockets of boredom; animation is controlled stimulation. It’s comfort without the demand of “prestige viewing,” a medium that can be absorbing without being exhausting.

Coming from Rowntree, a drummer in a band synonymous with modern British cool, it reads like a small act of demystification: behind the stage persona is someone choosing what travels well. The intent isn’t to elevate animation through theory, but to validate it through lived routine. That everyday endorsement is more persuasive than a manifesto.