Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
I'd rather die than fade away
Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.
Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.
You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.