Matt, you can learn from the best...
Try finding out more about David Garrett. This man uses a Stradivarious for his work, that is when he does not fall down the stairs and breaks it, after paying for it in blood for more then 6 years.
And he loves Metallica. And he conforms to .... the people he wants to reach with his playing. So, sometimes its black tye, and more then ones its Skaterpunk. It's what you need that counts, he says. And nothing else matters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_4515PnZmc
And, even when this all sounds too German to you? look at the people who love it....... He tours the pop channels to promote his new album Virtuoso, has groopies and stalkers, and he did not shy away from an experiment. He played in a shopping mall in Germany, as a busker. Most people who stopped to listen thought he was a natural tallent, some people recognised his from the television.
In the end he talks about how he got kicked out of collage when he was a student, because he broke into the "pricipals" office, using a bankplastic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAdAeAUW9sw
Later the tv presenter wonders if that school ever regretted doing that.
.......dude....now that's a damn party.....my wife want let me go to those kind...eggs or not. 
...That's what helmets are for 
