— ‘There is a similar coming-into-being feeling when we listen to the longest single recording of Nick Drake’s speech. Dating from the summer of 1966, it portrays a young man just turned 18, drunk after a local party and rambling into a tape machine.’ Page 69, Humphries, Patrick, ‘Nick Drake: The Biography’, (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Kindle Edition, 1998)

— ‘Amidst the hesitations and false starts, he scavenges a little poetry, first misquoting Rupert Brooke’s The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (the correct lines are: ‘Deep meadows yet, for to forget / The lies, and truths, and pain’) and then talking about the colour of dawn light, something which might have become a lyric.’ Page 68-70, Morton, Richard, ‘Nick Drake The Life’, (John Murray Publishers, 2023)

— ‘I must have drunk rather a lot… before one goes to bed, but that is surely the essence of the Romantic.’ Page 69, Humphries, Patrick, ‘Nick Drake: The Biography’, (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Kindle Edition, 1998); Page 68-70, Morton, Richard, ‘Nick Drake The Life’, (John Murray Publishers, 2023)

— In the Quietus in 2024, Rob Chapman posits Nick Drake's mental health struggles have not only overshadowed his art, but in our mental health-focused culture, they have reduced his music to some sort of ‘trouble cure and palliative’… to the proliferation of ‘wellness-themed playlists’.’ Chapman, Rob, ‘Beyond the Black Eyed Dog: Why Nick Drake Deserves more than ‘Indiefication’’, The Quietus, 5 November 2024

— ‘Just listen to American drummer, Mike Kowalski, who worked on [Bryter Layter], describing Drake’s confident direction to fellow musicians in the studio.’ Page 109, 110, Humphries, Patrick, ‘Nick Drake: The Biography’, (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Kindle Edition, 1998)