“Well, the thing was, I was writing songs, and they sounded different. They sounded - you know, I thought, man, mine don't sound like anybody else's. You know? Which I didn't realize was good. I thought - but you couldn't imagine it being played on the radio, because I would use calypso beats and hard rhythms, and what have you. And they wouldn't have fit, at all, on the radio, in country music that way.”