TED演讲：Theartofasking请求的艺术(7)

所以我常常做沙发客，也经常人群冲浪（从舞台上跳下，被观众接住）。我认为做沙发客和人群冲浪其实是一个概念。落入人群中信任他人。我曾经问一支为我们开场的乐队他们愿不愿意到人群中去，传递帽子筹一点额外的钱，我经常这样做。
And as usual, the band was psyched , but there was this one guy in the band who told me he just couldn"t bring himself to go out there. It felt too much like begging to stand there with the hat. And I recognized his fear of "Is this fair?" and "Get a job."
和往常一样，乐队非常兴奋，但是其中有一位成员告诉我他没有办法说服自己这样做。拿着帽子站在那里感觉实在是太像乞讨了。我意识到这种恐惧就是我想到“这公平吗？”和听到“找份工作去！”的时候的感受。
And meanwhile, my band is becoming bigger and bigger. We signed with a major label. And our music is a cross between punk and cabaret.It"s not for everybody. Well, maybe it"s for you. We sign, and there"s all this hype 宣传leading up to our next record. And it comes out and it sells about 25,000 copies in the first few weeks, and the label considers this a failure.
同时，我的乐队发展得越来越好。我们和一家主流厂牌签约。我们的音乐是朋克和卡巴莱(cabaret)的集合体。不是所有人都能接受。也许你会喜欢的。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。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。