I should also say that I do not equate those artists who die young, and burn through their talent explosively, with those who would waste or destroy their talent through dissipation, for there is a difference between living hard, which is sometimes pleasurable (but not necessarily easy), and living indulgently, where ease and pleasure are the goal, and where the body and the ego are always protected, so that nothing in the person is made vulnerable, or endangered, though of course then the soul disappears under layers of self-deception.