I guess then someone needs to tell Clapton, Jagger and Bowie that they’re not allowed to be musicians anymore! 😉

I think that there is a bit of a misconception of what “growing up” means. Being realistic and rational does not mean not having dreams and not enjoying things in life that do not directly contribute to having stuff. If music lights up your soul and makes you happy, then for goodness sake, live it! I’m also pretty sure that there are other people of all ages who feel the same way and would want to collaborate with you. So if that’s your thing, then do it.

What I would see as an immature point of view would be to want to be in a band because you’d want to look younger than you are or that you would want to be famous so that you could get attention. I.e. trying to manipulate the world so that you would feel better about yourself. That would be immature. To feel good about yourself is something that is down to you to accomplish, instead of dreaming of a future where you’d magically become this person that everyone admires. And to feel good about yourself is to allow yourself to do things that make you feel alive. It is your responsibility to live and shine as the person that you are.

People have jobs that aren’t their calling and still manage to live a happy life and do things that they really like to do…financed by the job that isn’t their calling. It’s not “either/or”. Besides if you are a really good musician, you can have that as a job as well. But to go into that with the expectation of instant fame would be silly.