It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.