Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.