One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I'm pretty confident about my musicality and my talent.
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
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