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The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life

The phrase represents WOXY’s core feature: its philosophy of independence. The idea that you can only be truly independent—creatively and otherwise—if you pursue that independence with and for other people

The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence on JSTOR

After years of working with and for others, he was truly on his own.

Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies

New experiments in publishing

ystrickler.com

On navigating the tension between physical and digital realms

The Creative Independent thecreativeindependent.com

An essential guide for artists of all levels on how to live and work as a creative, from a popular artist and TED speaker.

Phil Hansen • Creativity Sucks: And 30 Other Things I've Learned while Living a Weird, Amazing, Crazy, Creative Life

I say you have to learn how to be with and a part of something in order to know how to be alone. I think it is only out of a deep anchoring in community that one can ever be free to explore the solitary.

Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

This constant march into the unknown would not exist without the simultaneous sharing of millions of divergent points of view. Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

I held on to my day jobs for so long because I wanted to keep my creativity free and safe. I maintained alternative streams of income so that, when my inspiration wasn’t flowing, I could say to it reassuringly, “No worries, mate. Just take your time. I’m here whenever you’re ready.” I was always willing to work hard so that my creativity could play