I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff. ↗
Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared. ↗
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. ↗