Walkaboutverse has only been interested in folk music for a few years(how few is up for grabs, as he gives different numbers in different places), and thinking back, in my early enthusiasm, I remember having made quite a few presumptuous and erroneous pronouncements about folk music myself(not to mention the presumptuous and erroneous pronouncements that I've made more recently).

I also have a lot of bad poetry that I wrote, and sang, with varying degrees of success. In fact, I stumbled across a box of old lyrics just this morning, so I am very reluctant to be dismissive of anyone else's efforts-

As to the issue of ego--It has been fairly convincingly put forward that, in order to perform or create in any genre or medium, one must be firmly and unshakingly self-absorbed, and supremely confident that, whatever anyone else may think say, your work, and the world view that it embodies, is the most important(though often useful to affect modesty)-

So, all things considered, he's in good company here--