What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.