Codie Sanchez

Yeah, it's fine to be like...

Life is long.

That's the thing you, particularly when you're young, you don't realize how long life is.

Yeah.

Like, these things, you're inevitably going to have ups and downs and hits and misses.

And I did a wonderful project with Paul Simon, fellow Austin, you know, lives part of the year in Austin.

And, well, he's actually a bad example because he's had very, very, very, very, very few failures despite having an incredibly long career.

But like,

You know, his career started in his teens, still going on in his 80s.

He's had some insanely great albums.

He's had some merely good ones.

He said that maybe there's one album or two that he would call a failure.

But, like, that's the normal arc.

The greatest songwriter in American history has had albums that he thinks are a failure.

You just have to remember that.

Like, you know, there's not – the success does not mean –

a perfect record.

Success just means you win more than you lose.

I wouldn't say it's hard.

I mean, I'm happy when they sell.