I was really depressed. First the depression, then I went through a divorce. I started writing a lot. I had a lot more to say and stuff that meant more. You've got to go through some of this stuff to be able to put it down on paper.
All writers do, no matter what they do, if they're writing true songs.
You've got to live it first to some degree, or you can't play it. The soul won't come out. At the time it happened West was in a band, Bootleg County. While West was recuperating, a mutual friend of a bandmate called, a musician who had suffered polio as a child. This musician owned two pedal steel guitars which were modified so that all the strings and pedals were reversed so that this musician could play using his good leg for the pedals.