I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.
You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.
I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.
Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
I've been in a situation where I was after the money.
I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.
My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.