It means a lot to me. I never hesitate to remind myself that I got what I wanted - I did it the way the song says. As I get older, money is more important to me and fame less so. I'd feel like a fool. The time has come where I either have to expand or fold my tent.
Expansion is expensive and it flies in the face of what's happening in the business.
The industry is becoming more and more vertically integrated with less room for the small businessman. And I'm hardly a Sequoia. In this current climate, I don't know that someone like me can survive, let alone thrive. I'm perfectly willing to succumb to the natural order of things, to see the next generation come along and do what they have to do. I'm bad casting for The Lion in Winter.