To be honest the whole comment was pretty flippant and ill-considered, I was just trying to combat the idea that the life of a 'rockstar' is really worth ideali

To be honest the whole comment was pretty flippant and ill-considered, I was just trying to combat the idea that the life of a 'rockstar' is really worth idealising outside of the material rewards, which aren't even that great. Rockstars get paid just enough so that they'll be too busy spending it to realise that they're getting stiffed. In the words of Chris Rock: "Shaq is rich. The white guy who signs his cheque, is wealthy ... If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out a fucking window." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m37JkkGjAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m37JkkGjAY >there are several rock stars who don't end up crazy I'd be willing to bet though that the eventual craziness of rockstars is fairly closely related to what proportion of their career was spent on a hardcore, label-mandated touring schedule.