It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that. ↗
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from. ↗
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗