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I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.

In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.