Spouses and Kids and Jobs

[ LiB ]

This is a tough one. I don't know what to tell people who have kids to take care of. I guess I am a little traditional on this one. I say, "Don't quit your day job." I think if you gotta take care of someone else, you are doing them a disservice by trying to make a living at music, unless you're already on your way. The chances of starting at peg one and "making it" are astronomically against you. You should buy lottery tickets instead, and work a job, and play music as a hobby.

Playing music as a hobby ain't all that bad. Maintaining your amateur status can be a noble thing. Some of my favorite musicians don't make a living; they just make great music.

Who says everyone has to be a star? I find that whole line of reasoning specious. It don't hold water. It's just a lie propagated by the music-support industry, the people who make a living off the hopefuls.

An old joke:

1:	What do you call a musician without a girlfriend?
A:	Homeless.

I prefer not to have a girlfriend, at least in my own city. I like freedom, don't need constant reassurance (any moreI did back in the day), and would rather quietly sit in my room and change the world. I wouldn't have finished $30 Film School or D.I.Y. or DIE or this book if I'd had a girlfriend in Los Angeles, and I'm fine with it.

Kids? Personally, I'm fixed. I got snipped five years ago. I'm happy just living with my fur children (cats).

I already have an adult teen daughter in college, and she's so cool that one's enough, and I don't want more.

The world population has doubled in my lifetime, from three billion to six billion. Now that's pretty scary. I think that almost all of society's problems ( especially pollution and crime) are traceable directly to that.

[ LiB ]