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.

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

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

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

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