Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.