An important point again: our listening environment while monitoring our mixing may color the sound. I produce music in a normal spare bedroom, without any insulation or acoustical treatment. So I mix with hi quality headphones calibrated with SoundID Reference from Sonar. The other reasons is, that then I'm not disturbing others in our house.

An other good point: I'm also very often frustrated in live gigs to bad live sound. There should be nowadays tools for decent sound. Of cource the poor mixing engineer can't help, if the band doesn't have a balance at the stage. Very often the solo guitarist and sometimes even the bass player turns the instrument amplifier at the stage so loud, that that is all you can hear.

I would write songs, but I don't have much to say and maybe not talented enough to write melodies within harmony. So instead of filling the lyrics with meaningless words just for the sake of the melody, I search for lost treasures of music history and produce new versions of them.

I agree, that specially when listening songs written in languages I don't understand, I don't listen to lyrics, but melody, rhythm, arrangement, instrumen solos etc. Even in the case of many songs in English, I don't bother try to pick up the lyrics, because they are not worth it.