Bill Withers was in his 30s and working in a factory making airplane toilets when he recorded his self-financed demo tape. Didn't own a guitar until 32, wasn't a trained musician. One of first songs he wrote was "Ain't No Sunshine."

This is how he introduced it on a British television show: “Men have problems admitting to losing things. I think women are much better at that. . . So, once in my life, I wanted to forgo my own male ego and admit to losing something, so I came up with—"

also "I know, I know, I know" was a placeholder

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“Bill Withers was in his 30s with a job making toilets. Then ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ changed his life” https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/04/04/bill-withers-aint-no-sunshine/