theyll be in the future.
And that pretty much changed everything.
So being 20, I kind of went, Okay!
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I have $45.
I should probably beg for airline tickets from my parents and move to New York.
Forty-five dollars seems like a solid amount of money to live on.
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Youre going to tell the weird stories you tell me, but on stage.
At 20, you go, Sure, why not?
It went really well, and I remember thinking, well, that just changed everything.
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I loved it so much.
Id never done anything like that on stage, and it was such a nice reaction.
Is this a thing?
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Can I really do this for a living?
And that was it.
I got bit that night and never looked back.I started doing stand-up every night.
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But I did it in character.
I didnt really want to do it as myself.
25 YEARS FROM NOW:
Im going to have so much work done.
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Im going to just be unrecognizable.
No, I have no idea.
I hope Im doing a great variety of stuff.
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I hope Im doing things that would surprise the version of me here and now.
I think thats the exciting thing about our whole business its like, my God, who knows?
When I look at certain peoples careers, I think, God, you kind of cant peg em.
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That, to me, is the absolute goal.
Where the person doesnt come before the role.
Thats the real thrill.
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I had just been fired from my first paying job in entertainment.
I was a morning-radio sidekick on KZOK-FM in Seattle.
When my partner Kent Voss and I were fired, we were devastated and had no money.
Id been making $384 a week, gross.
That dropped to zero dollars a week, gross.
No one was interested.
Two very quiet months went by, and eventually I had no choice but to move back home.
We spent the first night at a motel in Stockton, California.
Thieves broke into the truck and stole our lawn mower.
Our next incident was at a highway rest stop on I-10.
I neglected to set the parking brake and went to the mens room.
A guy said, Hey, is that your truck?
Moving trucks are not supposed to move when youre not in them.
The truck was rolling toward the highway.
Thankfully, the truck hit a cement garbage receptacle and stopped.
I crashed a truck at that job, too.
Id never been lower and Ive not been lower than that since.
Six months later, Kent and I got jobs doing morning radio in Tampa.
I got fired at that job, too.
Im going back to Stockton to find my lawn mower.
We were on the last plane into the old [formerly divided] Berlin.
The pilot had the sky to himself so he circled the city a few times.
But we indeed found some very festive Germans and had a very late night with them.
It was a very exciting moment to be in Berlin.
But we were having a difficult time recording, to tell the truth.
It was a cold winter.
We werent getting on very well.
We almost broke up.
The song became something we held on to quite tightly.
And it became an anthem in Berlin, in the east and west.
Were one, but were not the same.
All the songs from Achtung Baby sound very well, very present.
I dont know what were doing now, although I will say the songwriting is probably stronger.
So I hope that continues.
The real measure of any great song is if it becomes a folk song.
I think With or Without You is a weird-sounding thing!
Its a very unusual song structure.
Yet now it sounds so normal.
So your job in 25 years time is to make the extraordinary sound normal.
I was killin it, high scorer.
ILANA:Did you have any endorsements?
ILANA:I was 3 and I was just beginning my first venture with my brother, Eliot K.R.A.P.
ABBI:DIY, grassroots.
ILANA:You would pick 25?
ABBI:No, I would pick 28 and redo it…
ILANA:Really?
You had a good 28… Im 28 now, so Ill be 53.
But, in a way that feels useful and brings joy to people.
I dont know if I would say I hope the majority of my work is behind me.
I hope I have a really strong body of work that Im building upon when Im 56.
ILANA:Well, you started when you were 22, so you want to go into your 80s?
ABBI:Who knows?
I hope Im having fun, you know?
Still a relatively good person.
ABBI:Thats fed up.
