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Success is to me is to wake up and do what I want to do with my days and spend it with who I want to spend it with…. success for me is to realize my vision.
…the end game is you have to figure out what matters. And so, the best way to do that is really to start with strategy first. You know, what is it you’re trying to do? It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, musician or not, what are you actually trying to accomplish? And then instead of going ahead and started exercising the strategy for that…
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Success is to me is to wake up and do what I want to do with my days and spend it with who I want to spend it with…. success for me is to realize my vision.

…the end game is you have to figure out what matters. And so, the best way to do that is really to start with strategy first. You know, what is it you’re trying to do? It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, musician or not, what are you actually trying to accomplish? And then instead of going ahead and started exercising the strategy for that…
Whatever you create, nobody owes you anything. They don’t owe you their time to listen to it. They don’t owe you anything to come out to a show. And when you really break it down to that, you start being like, well, how do I stand out?