I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
“There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.”
“Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.”