My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was...
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame but probably only for this reason that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.