Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.

