yeah i came from an non musical non artistic backround and both are seen as waste, but they've slowly relized it's not just a fad, and that there is potential... but it's strange it's histroy repeating, cos my dad came from a very poor background and nobody took his dream of getting a really decent education, and becoming a doctor... I mean my grandad got him to go work with carpenters/ plumers etc in his summer holidays to "teach him a trade"... but now he's a doctor, and as Much as he tries to mask it, he's pretty bitter about the lack of faith in him (untill the day he actaully got into med school)... BUT YOU'D THINK HE'D KNOW BETTER THAN TO TELL ME I'M WASTING MY TIME WITH PAITINGS AND GIUTAR!!!.. sigh.. what can you do...
As for charity, I would do charity work, but none of it public... I dont want to have that horrible naggin' concience asking me wether it was good will or pr... but then again to the poeple recieving the much neede help it wouldn't really matter...