You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
“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.”
“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”