Although Winchester was keenly aware of his lack of commercial success, he maintained a sense of integrity that proved as influential as his songs. „I didn‘t want to get into this business of trying to be the top [expletive] or something like that,“ he told RS in an earlier interview in 1970. „I‘d rather just hang in there all the time with good music, slow and steady, and share it, rather than set the world on fire all at once.“