Just remember the excellent post in the thread about sayings you don't hear in folk clubs;

(I paraphrase) "Will the banjo player please go back to his Porsche, he has left his lights on..."

Talent is a good starter for success, but only as a starter. I recall the Daily Mirror "voting" the guitarist out of The Bay City Rollers as the best guitarist in the world. Luckily, he was embarrassed enough about this to tell another newspaper that in the studio, they used session guitarists...

If you must climb the ladder to success, remember there is a bloke at the top of it who says, "Hi, I'm Cess.."

If however, success is something other than paying the bills. Well, most of my artistic heroes aren't those I see on the telly, but many of them I have had a pint with, asked how they do that complicated cadence.....

Methinks success and respect can be confused, and respect may not pay the bills, but you could always rob a bank.