I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.

Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!