There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses who's going to...
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be...
My failure during the first five or six years of my art training to get set in the right direction and the disappointment which it caused me drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.