If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

