Avoid developing ‘plate-glass vision’. It’s true you want to be difficult to reach, but that doesn’t mean you should allow yourself to develop what Bob Dylan called ‘plate-glass vision’. No need for that. I often eat at the same small restaurants I always did in London and New York. They know I’ve done well, but the staff there have no idea how well. I drop by my companies without notice and chew the fat with employees and managers regularly. I invite many of them to visit me at my private office, one on one. Even with my poetry, I go on the road on long tours and let the audience tell me what
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