Rejection
Why in the world does just a little bit of negative feedback have so much affect? In addition to filthy mittens, another person kind of dissed our music on garageband.com, and a third was so-so. Now stacked against 5 totally positive reviews, I should be feeling better, right? But no, those 3 not so upbeat reviews are what stick in my mind, what I think about.

Why?

I think part of not giving up is the ability to just move on and not dwell on the negative voices, because they will always be there. Even some of the best music gets skewed by critics, (see for example, this review of boy sets fire from buddyhead.com, which is 100x crueller than anything said about us on garageband . . .

There are almost 293,000,000 people in the United States. To have a very successful album, we only need to sell, oh let's say 3 Million. That means for every 3 people who love us, there could be 290 people who hate us and we'll be just fine. . . and from our reviews so far we're doing much better than that.

So we're going to keep on writing music, even if someone doesn't think it's catchy, and keep on recording it, even if someone thinks the song is long and boring. . . because we love to do it, and we just need to find the 1% of the population that loves to listen to it.