...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

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

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

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

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

a hundred failures mean a thousand successes

The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want youI'd be lying if I said I didn't wish you were mineThe truth is, you stole my heart from afarThe truth is, you still have it.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

The object of power is power.

Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.

I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.