My crew once pulled our van up to a really poor Miami neighborhood我的团队曾经把车停在一个非常贫穷的迈阿密社区，and we found out that our couchsurfing host for the night was an 18-year-old girl, still living at home,我们发现当晚招待我们的是一个依然与父母同住的18岁女孩，and her family were all undocumented immigrants from Honduras.他们一家人都是来自洪都拉斯的非法移

We sign, and there&#39s all this hype leading up to our next record.签约之后，公司举办了大量的宣传活动为我们的新唱片造势。It comes out and it sells about 25,000 copies in the first few weeks, and the label considers this a failure.唱片推出之后仅仅几周就卖出两万五千张，但是我们的厂牌认为这是一张失败的专辑。I was like, &quot25,000, isn&#39t that a lot?&quot我当时就说，“两

And you can see how many people it is. It&#39s about 25,000 people.可以看出有多少人参与了募款。大约两万五千人。And the media asked, &quotAmanda, the music business is tanking and you encourage piracy.媒体会问，“Amanda，音乐产业在衰亡，而你鼓励盗版。How did you make all these people pay for music?&quot你是如何让这么多人为音乐付钱的？”And the real answer is,

So, I didn&#39t always make my living from music.我以前并不靠音乐谋生。For about the five years after graduating from an upstanding liberal arts university, this was my day job.自从我五年前从一所正派的文理学院毕业起，这是我白天的工作。I was a self-employed living statue called the Eight-Foot Bride, and I love telling people I did this for

I recommend this, especially if those strangers are drunk German people.我推荐这种方式，尤其是这些陌生人都是醉酒的德国人的时候。This was a ninja master-level fan connection,这是与歌迷交流的最高级别，because what I was really saying here was, I trust you this much. Should I? Show me.因为我真正传达的信息是，我就是这样信任你们。我应该这样做吗？用行动告诉我。For most of human his

And then Twitter came along, and made things even more magic, because I could ask instantly for anything anywhere.后来，微博的出现让事情变得更加神奇，因为我可以在任意时间和地点提出任何要求。So I would need a piano to practice on, and an hour later I would be at a fan&#39s house.我可能会需要一架钢琴练习，一个小时之后，我就在歌迷的家里弹琴。This is in London. People wo

Is this how stupid people die? And before I can change my mind, the door busts open.愚蠢的人是不是就是这样死的？我还没来得及改变主意，门就打开了。She&#39s an artist. He&#39s a financial blogger for Reuters, and they&#39re pouring me a glass of red wine and offering me a bath,她是一位艺术家。他是路透社的一位金融博客写手，他们给我倒了一杯红酒让我洗澡，and I have had th

And I would get harassed sometimes. People would yell at me from their cars. &quotGet a job!&quot有时候我会被骚扰。开车路过的人从车里对我大喊。“找份工作去！”And I&#39d be, like, &quotThis is my job.&quot But it hurt, because it made me fear that I was somehow doing something un-joblike and unfair, shameful.我的反应是“这就是我的工作。”但是这让我很

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