Career choices and best way to start myself off

When I was a kid I discovered I really loved music. I listened to music all the time and eventually I wanted to learn how to make music myself. So I bought a cheap guitar and played that thing whenever I could. I even fell asleep playing it at night. I sucked in the beginning, but that did not stop me from playing and having fun. I soon played in bands with friends and we never did covers. We tried to write our own music. We sucked too, but at least we did our own thing and eventually we got better. Fast forward 22 years. I have toured the world, recorded 12 albums, made videos that have been shown on MTV, played on tv shows, radio shows. Played huge festivals all over the world. I have never sold out, always stayed true to myself and always written the music I want to. I now have artistic freedom to do pretty much anything I like, my record label trusts me. The thing is, I started out on this journey just because I loved music so much, that was the only reason. My goal was never even a career playing music. But it became a career in the end. I think that if you do something for the right reasons, and you do so with integrity, and you keep at it, put in the hours eventually you could end up successful.