Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out. 
Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality. 
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting. 
There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't. 