Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.