As an artist, do what you like to do. Only remember that you are our society's one chance to save ourselves from disaster. You should work on that well, while you are having good fun creating what you want to create.
Don't you find it presumptuous for her to declare that artists "are our society's one chance to save ourselves from disaster"? I mean, I've heard her, uh, music, and I can attest that she is absolutely deluding herself.