Creativity Quote by James Iha

It reads like casual tour-bus candor, but James Iha is doing something more strategic: he’s auditioning for a future that won’t be trapped inside any one band’s mythology. In a rock culture that loves clean narratives (the lineup, the breakup, the comeback), his language is deliberately noncommittal. “I guess I’ll see what happens” isn’t indecision so much as a refusal to perform certainty on demand. He won’t give the fanbase or the press a satisfying headline, because the headline becomes a contract.

The context matters. A Perfect Circle has always been a band of overlapping calendars and competing gravitational pulls, and Iha himself is a musician whose public identity has often been defined by other people’s legacies. So the real action in the quote is his insistence on multiplicity: “they do other projects too” normalizes creative drift as professional reality, not betrayal. That’s a subtle rebuke to the idea that loyalty equals exclusivity.

The last clause is the tell: “I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do ’em well.” It’s an artist’s version of growing up in public. He’s not romanticizing chaos; he’s staking a claim for craft across contexts. The anxiety is audible - long tours, uncertain timelines - but it’s paired with a quietly ambitious standard: range without sloppiness. In 2020s terms, it’s the portfolio mindset applied to rock: not abandoning the band, not clinging to it, just trying to stay good while staying free.