People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.