Originally Posted by: JustOnMyJourney

... and then he became one of the best writers of his time.

This. I've done a lot of top-level creative work, mostly in Hollywood, but also in other areas, and I've discovered over the years that the only stuff that's really "good" (whatever that means) is the stuff that I do from my heart. The stuff I did because I thought someone else would like it, or because I wanted to make money or feel important, etc., was not my best work. It's hard, though -- because the market drives us to think about whether something is commercial or not.

I bet Kurt didn't think about that when he was writing his best stuff. And I bet neither did anyone else who ever created anything worth a damn.