>There is something special for me about listening to a certain song late at night speeding on a damp muggy highway when the world is empty but somehow menacing, with nothing in the whole universe other than me and the crickets and the electric promise of a coming dawn full of opportunity.

You are paraphrasing the lyrics to Golden Earring "Radar Love".

  I've been drivin' all night, my hands wet on the wheel
  ...
  The radio's playing some forgotten song
  Brenda Lee's "Coming On Strong"
  The road has got me hypnotized
  And I'm a-speedin' into a new sunrise