Our culture has a pretty defined idea of someone who succeeds in the music industry. It usually involves being wildly popular and entertaining, with meteoric blaze and sudden conclusions. My career has been none of that, yet I have a great sense of succeeding with my music every year. I've been drawn into a life changing process of applying my talents to settings that have nothing to do with chart-busting hits or big production concert tours. We are all bound to examine our paths and ask that question.
Young careers have suitcases packed with useless perceptions, assumptions and expectations.
We won't know what's really important until our plane lands not in Paris, but in Amsterdam.