We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.