“그리고 그때는 제 인생에서 몇 번 없는 밴드가 없는 때 중 하나였고, 저는 저와 기타만 있었기 때문에, 제 목소리, 기타, 그리고 제 노래만으로 누군가를 감동시켜 제게 기회를 줄 만한 무언가를 해야 했습니다. 그래서 저는 가사가 매우 생생하고 가사가 빽빽한 노래를 썼습니다. 그리고 그것들은 독특했지만, 그것은 제가 그런 식으로 제 흔적을 남겨야 한다는 동기에서 비롯된 것이었습니다. 아니면 제가 이해했듯이요.

“And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.”