"That brings up actually walking through the streets of Arcata, California with Sam Phillips. We went for a walk at night, she was opening shows for us on that tour, and we went for a walk in the dark, looking at amazing old houses and so on and just kind of feeling the place and somehow we got talking about the end of the world......I was lugging my backpack around, which I generally lug around and we'd been walking for quite awhile and she sort of noticed that I was lugging this thing and she said, 'What do ya got in there anyway?' and I said it's everything I need for the apocalypse. She stopped, and she just sort of looked at me and she went 'what do you need for the apocalypse but champagne and a couple of glasses?' It was such a great statement of everything, that, I retained it, and I thought 'Man, if she doesn't use that in a song, I'm going to, so I did. Sam forgot she ever said it, until I reminded her, but the song yeah, Last Night Of The World." 

 -- from Sedge Thompson's interview on West Coast Live, 29 June 2002, at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival in Laytonville, California. Transcribed and submitted to the project by Bobbi Wisby