If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.