We arrived in Los Angeles with no money, no return ticket, and an agreement that if the show flopped we would disband. We had nothing to lose — and that is exactly the right state of mind for doing something that has never been done before.
The circus was supposed to be dead. Everybody said so. But nobody stopped to ask whether the circus had just been done wrong for fifty years.
From 400 kilometers above the earth, every problem that felt enormous from the ground looks like what it actually is — a temporary inconvenience on a very small planet.
I spent extravagantly because I believed in experiences. The problem is that some of the experiences I invested in were my own ego.
I learned to breathe fire on the street to survive. I will figure out the next chapter the same way — one performance at a time.