Stevie Influenced by The Police?

[DeeGeMe]

I read a book on songwriting a few years ago by the great Jimmy Webb and he talked about how he'd go visit famous songwriting friends and they'd beg him not to play anything he was working on to them--too much temptation to rip off something, not overtly necessarily, but subconsciously. Some musicians won't even listen to music by others because of that.