margo timmins has said about that time, "so when he asked me i was freaked out, but i said 'okay, so long as if i don't do a good job you fire me' i didn't want to hurt his music, because his music is so important to him." it took a long time for her to get comfortable singing in front of an audience. in fact, many of the early shows had margo singing with her back to the audience.