Music is not a profession for me. There’s nothing wrong when it is someone’s profession, but it’s not how I, myself, make my living. And I’m actually quite glad about that. A profession implies that the trade is something you do for work, and work implies that commerce is, if not your only motivation, a significant one. I’m hardly a mercenary, but the work I do for my profession—which I happen to like—is still based mostly on being paid. If …