Well said! I would go a step further and say that if you’re approaching the creative process from the standpoint of “the world needs more ME” then you’re in it for all the wrong reasons. Unfortunately we live at a time when most people’s perceptions of “artists” are very black and white (you’re either Beyoncé or you’re a broke-ass poet in a cardboard box) and that “making a difference” is synonymous with “getting famous”. I encounter this a lot, especially among teens and early twenty-somethings.

No, the world doesn’t need YOUR art specifically, but a healthy society does necessitate creative people coming together to create new cultural pathways and address the issues of the day, preferably in as self-effacing a manner as possible. I always think of the great Tibetan Buddhist painters and sculptors who, as a matter of principle, never sign their names on their creations, believing it to be profane and counter to the Buddhist ideal of release from the illusion of the “self”. Not that we should all embrace such complete selflessness, but I suppose this is a distant ideal.