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In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.