“You must prepare the ground. If you’re going to be asking one day, you need someone to ask who is going to answer the call. So you tend to your relationships on a nonstop basis, you abide by the slow, ongoing task, going out there like a faithful farmer, landing on the unseeable bamboo shoot. And then, when it is time – whether you’re asking a bunch of people to preorder your album, or asking one person to hold back your hair while you’re puking – someone will be there for you.”
