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I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

I used to do promo work, where you would be paid not very much to stand in the street for a very long time endorsing a product that you'd either A, never heard of, or B, didn't like.

Actually, we've done 75 of these shows and every one of them has sold out. But then we buy all the tickets.

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.

We did 300 shows in our first two years.