Talent isn't that important when you've got it, it's what you do with it. Ike was an asshole.

Being an asshole isn't what he did with his talent, it's what he did with his rage. With his talent, he was one of the inventors of Rock and Roll. Was that important? I think so.

Should we just forget about all artists who did unpleasant things, and deny the importance of their art? That would be absurd.

Why does it have to be one or the other, anyway? Remember him as man who sometimes acted like an asshole, AND as an artist crucial to the unfolding of the twentieth century. He was, undeniably, both.