The CD liner notes feature a quote from each songwriter about his or her song on the two-disc set. Here are a couple of examples:

Ross Wilson: “I always think ‘Cool World’ is a landmark for me, because it was the first shift into more insightful kind of writing. Before that, with a couple of exceptions, my writing had tended to be more flippant and still about, come on let’s dance, there was a lot of that. But ‘Cool World’ was a signpost into more mature lyric writing on a regular basis, and now just about everything I write is coming from the kind of insight that I’ve gained about who I am and how I relate to the world around me.”

James Reyne: “‘Hammerhead’ was not necessarily about me, but let’s say I thought I knew what I was talking about. I wrote it with Simon Hussey; the music Simon and I wrote together and I wrote the lyrics. From memory it seemed to come quite easily. I shouldn’t make too much about the fact that it’s about drugs. It can be taken many ways. It was an exercise in trying to write a song about that subject but to also make it that it could be about a relationship. It’s a song about a relationship. And whether that relationship is with a substance or a person, it’s an obsessive relationship.”