Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.
I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.
Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
Most people I know that are successful have a few things in common that are undeniable: driving ambition, and they have applied that to something they're good at, that they love doing... and they are fun to be around, especially when they're talking about their passion.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.