TED演讲：Theartofasking请求的艺术(2)

我与人有着最深层次的接触，尤其是那些看起来好几个星期都没有与人交流的孤独者我们共享一个美好的时刻城市街道上可以发生的一次漫长眼神交流，我们都感觉好像有点爱上对方。我的眼睛会说，“谢谢。我看到你了。” 他们的眼睛则会说， “从来没有人在意我的存在。谢谢你。”
And I would get harassed sometimes.People would yell at me from their passing cars."Get a job!"And I"d be, like, "This is my job." But it hurt, because it made me fear that I was somehow doing something un-job like and unfair, shameful.
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！” 我的反应是“这就是我的工作。” 但是这让我很伤心 因为这让我感觉我的工作不正经 不公平和可耻。
I had no idea how perfect a real education I was getting for the music business on this box. And for the economists out there, you may be interested to know I actually made a pretty predictable income, which was shocking to me given I had no regular customers, but pretty much 60 bucks on a Tuesday, 90 bucks on a Friday.It was consistent.
我没想到站在这个盒子上谋生的经历竟会对我的音乐事业有如此深刻的意义。经济学家们你们可能会对这一点感兴趣，我的收入其实相当稳定，因为我没有固定的顾客这一点让我自己也非常吃惊我一般周二挣60美元，周五挣90美元。我的收入是稳定的。
And meanwhile, I was touring locally and playing in nightclubs with my band, the Dresden Dolls.This was me on piano, a genius drummer.I wrote the songs, and eventually we started making enough money that I could quit being a statue , and as we started touring, I really didn"t want to lose this sense of direct connection with people, because I loved it.