We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

Theres no drama like wrestling.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.