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In a sense, I try to not have hopes about what people think about me, about my work.  I learned this performing on open stages and at coffeehouses.  

In the early days I worried "Do they love me?  Do they hate me?  Am I good enough?" etc. 

In time I figured out this didn't matter, it wasted my emotional energy, and it distracted me from doing my best work.

The artist has to do what the artist does.