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When you examine the genesis of great works of art, successful start-ups, and revolutionary shifts in politics, you can always trace back a history of monetary and nonmonetary exchange, the hidden patrons and underlying favors.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

How do we create a world in which people don’t think of art just as a product, but as a relationship?

How do we let people pay for music?

Your songs are good, Amanda. And I’m not just saying that. I stared at him in disbelief. I get given a lot of music, he continued. It’s like that on the road, you know, we get handed mountains of demo tapes every night. And they’re, you know, not always good. Your songs are good. I don’t know what your plans are. But I hope you keep going. I just wanted to say that.

Limitations can expand, rather than shrink, the creative flow.

There’s a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.

To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.

Here is one successful recipe I have used to deal with haters, trolling, bullying, and other manifestations of critical voices. We all have them. Take the scathing article, hurtful office gossip, or nasty online comment. Hold it in your mind. Now imagine the scathing article, hurtful office gossip, or nasty online comment being aimed at the Dalai Lama.

Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other’s floor. Everyone I know uses what they’ve got and shares what they’ve got.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with – rather than in competition with – the world. Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

Asking for help requires authenticity, and vulnerability.

Twitter fascinates me because it’s real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

As I moved through my life as a statue and later as a musician, I started to understand. There’s a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen.

Asking is, at its core, a collaboration.

Listening fast, and caring immediately, is a skill in itself.

I hate it when people don’t spend the night.

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come – sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected – and it balances.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It’s definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Given the opportunity, some small consistent portion of the population will happily pay for art.

It’s really easy to love passing strangers unconditionally. They demand nothing of you. It is really hard to love people unconditionally when they can hurt you.

Giving away free content, for me, was about the value of the music becoming the connection itself.

Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we’ve just met of deep, traumatic childhood wounds looks just as alien to them.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

Often it is our own sense that we are undeserving of help that has immobilized us.

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Did I TED well? Am I fired?

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

I’ve apologized tons of times. The only thing I must not do is break the code of honesty and steady, forthright contact. You can fix almost anything by authentically communicating.

Asking is, in itself, the fundamental building block of any relationship.

I suppose I’m happy to sell my time and energy, but I’m not happy to sell my initial creative time.

From what I’ve seen, it isn’t so much the act of asking that paralyzes us – it’s what lies beneath: the fear of being vulnerable, the fear of rejection, the fear of looking needy or weak. The fear of being seen as a burdensome member of the community instead of a productive one.

We have the power to help each other.

Art pries us open.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you’re worthy.

That’s the whole point, darling, he said. Writers make things up.

I think you can’t have this discussion and you can’t have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They’re holding the other side of the bag.

You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.

We are human and our nature is to air.

I think I’ve been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don’t show.

There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet – not the guys, not the women.

It made me consider one of the reasons I loved my fanbase so much: they are wholly independent and have their own unassailable, discerning tastes. They weren’t looking to me as a leader to follow blindly, there to dictate their choices. They were looking to me as a connector, a coordinator, which was the role I wanted.

The pattern’s laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you’ve got the needle I guess that’s the point in the end.

People can understand a price tag, no matter what it’s stuck on. But some can’t understand a messier exchange of asking and giving – the gift that stays in motion.

It is really hard to love people unconditionally when they can hurt you.

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