I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.
As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.