The Blue Nile - stay, 1984

"I suppose to some extent that started to bleed into our own songs – there was more and more space in what we were doing"

The Go-Betweens - you've never lived, 1984

"The song captures the Go-Betweens' signature style: literate, barbed lyrics delivered with a mix of jangly guitars, a restless rhythm, and Forster's distinctive nasal, talk-singing delivery."

Neil Young - here we are in the years, 1969

"The songs were gathered from the past and the future, mostly dreams, nothing concrete; they were mostly created as vehicles for record-making, like 'Here We Are in the Years,' or personal expression and longing, such as 'I’ve Been Waiting for You.' Some of them were stream-of-consciousness, like 'The Last Trip to Tulsa,' with no preconceived thought behind them. They were just songs. There was no big pressure on me at that time to top anything I had already done. That came later. The sky was the limit. I had no idea what was coming my way."

The Beatles - anna go to him cover, 1963

"Despite the song's title, throughout the song the lyric is "go with him" rather than "go to him".[3] Regarding the additional syllable added to Ann's name in the song, Alexander said, "it just fit better than Ann."

Beirut - baion, 2023

"His sixth album as Beirut was conceived while he was living in an old wooden church on the Norwegian island of Hadseløya, seeking refuge from self-doubt, mental collapse, a cancelled tour and briefly career-threatening throat problems."

Death Cab For Cutie - bend to squares, 1998

"I’d like to think I’m a far better writer now than I was 10 years ago. When I first started the band, and I began writing in the way that has marked the trajectory of how I go about making music now, I was convinced that my writing was wildly descriptive and very dense and interesting, and people were really going to have to chew on this stuff."

Hank Bee - ten twenty-three, 2026

"I love writing at a window. Watching the world pass makes me feel like I’m watching a film (I also sometimes write while watching the tv) - I recently learned that John Prine (probably my songwriting hero) used to rent hotel rooms and would take his guitar and watch the shit hotel TV whilst he wrote."