No problem there. Get over it. I like to write songs, and I like to record them and play them for people. I have plenty of other venues in life for those things. If it's done right, this manipulation can cheer us up or immerse us in cathartic sorrow or whatever the artist's intent might be.
People seem to relate to that one too.
You seem to have a real passion for this. By the time my last band, Pimentos for Gus, had broken up, I was so sick of the music business and being a musician that I was very, very close to hanging it up and becoming a painter or putting my college degree to use or something. I was sick of working crappy service jobs where I took orders from morons and struggling endlessly for such minimal rewards. But once I tested the waters as a solo musician, I found that if I really tried I could reorient my life in a way where I could bring all the spheres of my life into more harmony. I've reached a relatively tolerable point job-wise now, and although I'm still unsigned for the time being, I'm exploiting that freedom to do absolutely anything I want artistically, to really challenge myself and my audience.