IMPROVEMENT at ANYTHING is BASED on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how MANY times you've failed at something.
The talent of SUCCESS is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well WHATEVER you do WITHOUT thought of FAME. If it comes at all it will COME because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
I'm very grateful for the SUCCESS of 'Take Me to the Alley.' The chart position it's reached around the world is very exciting, and its success is an example of the ACCEPTANCE of my MUSIC. I am very thankful.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have DONE and what we might have been on the one HAND, and the thing we have MADE and the THINGS we have made of ourselves on the other.
Success is always SOMETHING completely DIFFERENT to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that MAKES me HAPPY and I'm not LYING to anybody.
Success is a terrible THING and a WONDERFUL thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating AWAY at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to TOP this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.