You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.
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If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.
Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
To me, making records isn't work.
I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.
Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.
To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.