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
We sign, and there's 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 failu
And you can see how many people it is. It's 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, "Amanda, 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
So, I didn't 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 wa
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
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
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's an artist. He's a financial blogger for Reuters, and they're pouring me a gla
And I would get harassed sometimes. People would yell at me from their cars. "Get a job!" 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'd be, like, "This is my job." But it hurt, because it made me fear that
