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Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.