@colorblindcowboy It's complicated and I don't know that I am able to explain it properly, but I will try. That eternal tension between being an artist and having to make a living usually seems to end up at "gotta do what you gotta do" and then the artist may be successful but also feel awful about what it took to get there. But (as my mother always said) he'll be "laughing his way to the bank" because he is able to feed his family and maybe make a lot of money. It's so easy to tell someone that they need to stick to their principles when you are sitting there comfortably on your couch with a steady job not worrying about where your next meal is coming from. In the end, as long as "doing what you gotta do" does not equal killing innocent people or directly destroying ecosystems, who truly has a right to judge one for doing that which they've "gotta do"? That's what I think.