1. It was a stiflingly conformist place… allowing for a happenstance accumulation of abstract forms. Page 147, McNally, Dennis, Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And America (Da Capo Press, 2003)

2. … thousands of young men of Denver hurrying from their homes…the centre of Saturday night in America. Page 74, Kerouac, Jack, ‘Visions of Cody’, (Penguin Classics, 2012)

3. Around four years after Kerouac’s death… debut release, ‘Closing Time’, and record something different. Page 97, Hoskyns, Barney, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits (Faber & Faber, 2010)

4. Looking out of the car window… subject matter for Waits’ second studio album. Page 25, 26, 35, 96, 97, Hoskyns, Barney, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits (Faber & Faber, 2010)