— ‘I stepped into the shower one day,’ Paul Simon said of the album’s genesis, ‘and boom this line comes into my head… after all the success I'm back here: still crazy after all these years.’ With his marriage in trouble, Simon apparently took a lot of showers around that time. His wife [Peggy Harper] wondered if he was trying to clean off the scent of betrayal. Later, Paul Simon explained he wanted to scrub away the sadness. Page 189-196, Hilburn, Robert. ‘Paul Simon: The Life’ (Simon & Schuster, 2018)

— ‘When he first played ‘Train in the Distance’ to Carrie Fisher, he worried she would think it was about them.’ Page 239, Hilburn, Robert. ‘Paul Simon: The Life’ (Simon & Schuster, 2018)