I love to work with students, give workshops, coach my music and share ideas with the teachers. He doesn't want to analyze art, he wants to create it. Some people can, but most composers complain that the academic atmosphere is restrictive. Maybe it's all the other stuff you have to do besides teaching - committee meetings and so forth. Pick the right mate.
Composing is too hard a life to live alone.
I never thought I'd get married, the Demon saw it as an interference. Then I met my wife, Ulla, in Denmark. We had dinner and she asked what it's like to be a composer in America. I laughed and told her she just happens to like music. The way I look at it, there will always be a senator from Illinois, but there won't always be a composer from Illinois.