Hatchet reporters Ani Mamourian and Alex Carusillo asked musicians (…and a bouncer) at Austin’s South By Southwest to share their tips for success. Here’s what they offered:

Bill Gray of The Mae Shi:
“Don’t fuck over the people you love … that’s my only moral. And I still break it. I guess it’s inevitable … all you can do is try.”

Andrew Cedermark of Titus Andronicus:
“Eat healthy. Don’t smoke. Don’t join a rock & roll band.”

Jay Heiselmann of French Miami:
“Do what you love. That’s what we do! But we’re broke.”

Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady:
“Actually. No, I don’t think I have any.”

Adam “Doseone” Drucker:
“Patience. Fuck the police. Stay out of Texas. Follow your friends, not the path your career seems to have set for you. Unless your friends are ragged, emotionally or otherwise, because then they will lead you in a semicircle.”

Matt “The Bishop,” bouncer at Beauty Bar:
“I have four pieces of advice. One: Every day you wake up, praise Jesus that he has made you and you’re alive. Two: Never bullshit a bullshitter. Three: Never do anything you can afford to pay someone to do for you. And four: You wanna buy the circus, you don’t talk to the clowns.”

Gentleman Jesse & His Men:
“Don’t eat yellow snow, ya know?”