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I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

I am hoping for a long career.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.