You're going to call me completely nuts, but I still have LJ comments from five years ago in my email inbox. I'm in the process of deleting them, and rereading them at the same time. So looking back, I just have to say:
You know, the path of an artist is a very interesting one. Not trying to flatter myself, but artists are almost adored for the work that they do, yet have such a hard time actually making a living because no one really wants to pay for the stuff that they are adoring.