The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench - a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side...
I would advise you to keep your overhead down, avoid a major drug habit, play every day, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
Sometimes it's a struggle to be not who you want to be, not who you used to be, not who you're going to be, but just being right where you are, who you are.