. . . Now that years have gone by, I see that the message must have been his message through and through, not that I ever could articulate the message that well myself, but in hearing Jimi cover it, I realize he must've felt it pretty deeply inside and out and that somewhere back there his soul and my soul were on the same desert . . . it's not a wonder to me that he recorded my songs but rather that he recorded so few of them because they were all his.

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