Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.