You don't have to be obsequious. Also, Phil Collins is talented.
It's not really all that funny. I'm sure that I have now angered everyone who worked with you for that song and the video.
You don't have a Scooter Braun to manipulate your image, or a team of people to think of how to market you and things about you and things associated with your "brand" as far as I know. I think that's good; it's also riskier, which explains why you have made some cliched choices. Anyone would be afraid.
I think what you should do is to seek out the most talented, most creative, hardest-working, most professional people and try to work with them. The effort that you put toward being successful in the first place should now be put toward researching who those people are and contacting them.
Start making your own decisions now. It doesn't get easier the longer that you put it off. Make mistakes; you have to do that to develop your own judgment. Over time, the things that take so much thought now will be like nothing. Don't spend too much money while you're drafting your career.
Who's going to argue that large amounts of money aren't intoxicating, after all of the talented people who have ruined their lives and allowed their talent to atrophy? Be glad that you have it; unlike most artists, you don't have to be poor and frustrated while you pursue creative achievement.
