Sometimes I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting.
Please save us from all the people who get melodramatic about suffering for one's art. The most destructive thing any teacher ever said to me was, "If you can do anything else, do it! Only pursue this if you can't do anything else." Like most humans, I am good at more than one thing. Don't ask yourself to put all your passion into one box. Let it flow and your various interests will feed each other.
