What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Plan your work for today and every day then work your plan.
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be...
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.