It's no secret that Dave Matthews Band deeply inspired my songwriting. I would say it inspired me so much that I became a songwriter.
— John Mayer, Sirius XM Radio (2024)
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In 2017 on Instagram Live, John Mayer described the guitar riff from Edge of Desire as "not that different from Satellite
In 2025 on his Sirius XM radio station, he also recounted that as a teenager he'd practiced using a four-track recorder by recording layered guitar parts from Satellite.