Yea dude!
Spoken like a true artist who knows the struggle! I can relate to preeeetty much everything you spoke about in that article, time management is key, if you're going to be a self-made artist you better start putting some time aside for reading, writing, planning, designing, marketing, networking, photography, production, post-production and every now and then you get to play some music haha
speaking to my soul. When people arrive at studio and say "I'll be the next big thing after I drop this song and it's video" I don't know where to begin. How do you quantify the work it takes and try get the artist to unlearn all nonsense about record deals and fame that they've been fed. what a headache...
Yea dude, it is sad, there are no deals, and quick-fixes man, its all just pure hard work!