Festivals are good to open the road for you, to bring in new faces and voices, but not to go back to once you've made it.
Actually, the first songs I learned were imitations of Johnny Mathis.
Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.
Bless the Lord because he has converted me into a friend and accomplice of many couples, many hearts, and many marvelous souls who fall in love, and who suffer because of love.