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I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.

I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.