Pricing a concert ticket is very different from pricing a Lexus or toothpaste. Apparently he's been fundraising outside, selling bootleg T-shirts and scalping tickets.

When we drove up, he was out front, scalping T-shirts and selling a few tickets,

Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.