For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.
Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.
Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.
I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.
Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.
You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.