Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it...
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
