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Like King David in the Bible, afflicted with a demon that only music could quiet,
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“I like my heroes to be alive,” she told me. “I like them to grow old.” I, too, admire my idols more for the lines on their faces, for the bumps and bruises, the cuts and scar tissue. Every year that goes by that I have Bob Dylan in my life, I admire him more. And although she’s a lot younger, same goes for Chrissie Hynde. Now we’ve lost Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and B. B. King, but not before we discovered them discovering their older selves.
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my own ideas second to the collective. I’ve always seen myself as a kind of salesman—selling songs, selling ideas, selling the band, and on my best day selling, well, hope. If we could get this drop-the-debt song on the charts, this was a different kind of hope, maybe for millions of people.
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Enter the word “advocacy.” A word that is less touchy-feely than directly funding schools and medicines, but when NGOs like Amnesty or Global Citizen, Oxfam or Save the Children, are effective, they can transform policies, which in turn transform life for millions of people. At our best, organizations like ONE become a PA system for people and countries who rarely get invited on the global stage. Because in the end, our ask is of governments. Our ask is to remake the global architecture in favor of those being locked out of the house. Our ask is for justice. And it turns out the fight for
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