- How difficult is it to get
a project off the ground?
I wouldn't say, well okay it's difficult.
Its not that it's hard though,
it's just that most things I do
suck (laughs)
and don't work (laughs).
And so it's not hard to do it,
it's just emotionally draining (laughs).
(upbeat music)
I have, yeah, one piece of advice
for creative people early
on in their careers.
It's the advice I give every time
people ask me for advice.
And it's never changed,
it's been the same, it's been true for me,
it's the advice I've taken for myself.
And I think it's actually the same
whether you're an artist
or an entrepreneur
or whatever it is.
It's very simple,
don't quit.
Don't quit.
Just keep going,
keep trying new things.
Doesn't mean keep trying the same thing,
over and over again.
You can get yourself into a
big black hole by doing that.
But try more things.
If what you're doing isn't working
just try again.
I've played as a musician.
I went on four tours in 2007.
Four tours
and sold no tickets (laughs).
Played to bars
and in one of the bars I played,
there was nobody there,
and I mean Zero people.
The number zero were there.
And the bartender left
halfway through my set
and the room was empty.
And I was playing this
500 person room, on stage,
by myself.
And it's very easy to walk
away from something like that,
and be like, "Fuck this, I hate music,
I'm done, this sucks."
And I think, most people quit
at that point.
Most people have an experience
like that, and are like,
"I'm not getting resonance,
I'm beating my head
against a wall, I'm out."
And most people don't
know, they never know
that they were two months
away, three years away,
five years away from making
that thing that resonates
with so many people.
And instead of just
getting through that gap,
they quit.
And my advice to creative
people or entrepreneurs
or whoever it is, is just don't quit.
That's all you have to do,
all you have to do is not quit
and you'll get through that gap.
