Follow-up Success Quotes

I'm always surprised when a sequel is not as good or better than the first one. I never understand that. You've already set your own bar. You've already done the hard work. It should be easier to make the second one, but a lot of the times, it's not.

'PKP' was a huge success, and even the sequel did well. I became very choosy after that.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

When you score 30 goals in a season, you can expect that the following year there will be a little bit more pressure and attention on you.