My career started young and I was really ambitious and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
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You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be...
For whatever reason not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And believe me it is a gift.